I disagree; unless they add recursive search abilities to glob(), it's much easier to design with readdir() and scandir() than glob. You're making it out to be annoying, when it really isn't. Just don't use it if you hate it.

I wrote a tutorial seven months ago that you probably read, if you visit Pixel2Life and read tutorials there, about implementing recursive searches--and helped someone extend it to include keyword searching as well. It wouldn't be hard, at all, to check for an extension on the end of that. For one directory, sure glob is nice, otherwise forget it. I used scandir to get all elements within the directory, and then discern what I wanted to do with them from there.

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