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Date: Sun, 20 Oct 2013 14:50:08 +0200
From: Luuk <luuk@invalid.lan>
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On 20-10-2013 06:58, j wrote:
>    I don't understand when to use {},[] or () in php glob matching
>
> I want to match one or more numbers, either an a,w or h, a dash and then
> a string.
>
> 120a-some_string or 1400w-some_string or 7h-some_string...
>
> Is it:
>
> glob('+{0-9}@{a,h,w}-some_string,GLOB_BRACE);
>
> or is it?:
>
> glob('+[0-9]@[ahw]-some_string');
>
> or something else?
>
> Jeff
>
>

 > ls -l *some_string
-rw-r--r-- 1 luuk users 0 Oct 20 14:45 120a-some_string
-rw-r--r-- 1 luuk users 0 Oct 20 14:45 1400w-some_string
-rw-r--r-- 1 luuk users 0 Oct 20 14:45 7h-some_string
 > php -r " print_r(glob('+[0-9]@[ahw]-some_string'));  "
Array
(
)
 > php -r " print_r(glob('+{0-9}@{a,h,w}-some_string',GLOB_BRACE));  "
Array
(
)
 > php -r " print_r(glob('*-some_string')); "
Array
(
     [0] => 120a-some_string
     [1] => 1400w-some_string
     [2] => 7h-some_string
)
 >


i would go for:
 > php -r " print_r(glob('[0-9]*[awh]-some_string')); "
Array
(
     [0] => 120a-some_string
     [1] => 1400w-some_string
     [2] => 7h-some_string
)