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Are the results of readdir() sorted?

Jan 25th, 2000 22:04
Nathan Wallace, Torben Wilson, David Coulson

It'll just return the order they are stored in the directories file
list, which is _usually_ oldest first, although it depends upon the
filesystem your using. I personally wouldn't rely on them coming out in
any sort of order.

PHP returns the entries in whatever order the system C library readdir()
returns them. PHP imposes no order of its own on the sort order.

Here is the manual entry:

    http://www.php.net/manual/function.readdir.php3