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PHP – Is it possible to test the array_map('unlink', glob('/folder/my_files–*.txt')) command by try/catch?

I would like to test if the function array_map(‘unlink’, glob(‘…*.txt’)) did not encounter an error:
ex.:

try { 
  array_map('unlink', glob('/folder/my_files--*.txt'));
} 
catch (Exception $e) {
  echo 'Caught exception: ',  $e->getMessage(), "n";
}

In your opinion, does this code seem valid?
Thank you for your feedback !

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    Mmm!, in fact I'm too stupid, it doesn't matter the extension of the file, what I want is to empty the folder... Deceze's answer is very good if we want to specifically delete a type of file, among others other file types. I'm going to use DirectoryIterator:

    $iterator = new DirectoryIterator(dirname(__FILE__));
foreach ($iterator as $fileinfo) {
    if (!$fileinfo->isDot()) {
        unlink( $fileinfo->getFilename() );
    }
}

    Thank you for your answers, it's late here, it helped me think!


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    No, none of these function throw an exception, so no exception will ever be caught by this code. unlink returns true or false, so the result of array_map will be an array of true and/or false values, and you need to test whether all values in the array are true to know whether all unlink operations succeeded.

    For this kind of operation, array_reduce is actually the better option, as it allows you to reduce the result to a single value right while you’re iterating:

    $result = array_reduce(glob('...'), fn($res, $file) => unlink($file) && $res, true);

if (!$result) {
    echo "Something didn't get deleted!";
}
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