symfony/finder

Features

• Filesystem Discovery Utilities - Provides a comprehensive toolkit for locating files and directories across a filesystem using name, size, and date criteria.
• File and Directory Management - Locates files and folders across multiple locations using wildcards and directory exclusions.
• Complex Filesystem Filtering - Applies complex logic and regular expressions to isolate specific sets of files based on properties and paths.
• Filesystem Name Filters - Provides the ability to include or exclude files by matching their names against strings, globs, or regular expressions.
• Filesystem Entry Type Filters - Enables restricting search results specifically to files, directories, or both.
• Filesystem Path Filters - Implements the ability to include or exclude files and directories by matching their filesystem paths.
• Size-Based File Filtering - Allows filtering of files based on their byte size using comparison operators and human-readable measurements.
• PHP Filesystem Filtering Libraries - Offers a PHP tool for including or excluding filesystem entries using glob patterns, regular expressions, and custom logic.
• PHP Filesystem Search Components - Implements a specialized PHP library for locating files and directories using a fluent interface and complex filtering.
• Version Control Ignore Parsers - Includes a parser that respects standard version control ignore files to skip unnecessary files during search.
• Fluent Interfaces - Provides a fluent interface for building complex filesystem search configurations via method chaining.
• Iterator-Based Filesystem Traversal - Wraps filesystem searches in an iterator to stream results one by one instead of loading all files into memory.
• Recursive Directory Traversers - Implements recursive directory traversal algorithms to locate matching files and directories within nested structures.
• Directory Iterators - Provides an object-oriented directory iterator for traversing and filtering filesystem entries.
• Content Extraction - Extracts raw text content from identified files for internal data analysis.
• Date-Based Filters - Filters files based on their last modification timestamp using various date formats and comparison operators.
• Version Control Ignore Rules - Respects version control exclusion patterns and metadata to skip unnecessary files during search.
• File Content Filtering - Includes or excludes files by checking if their internal text matches specific strings or regular expression patterns.
• Filesystem Search Result Sorting - Provides natural sorting of matching files and directories by name, size, type, or time.
• Project-Wide Source Analyzers - Scans source code directories to analyze file contents and patterns while respecting version control exclusion rules.
• Recursion Depth Limits - Controls the depth of recursive directory traversal to restrict search levels.
• Lazy-Loaded Result Sets - Defers actual disk scanning until the resulting iterator is looped over by the calling code.
• Custom Logic Filtering Hooks - Executes custom logic functions to exclude specific files or skip entire directory branches for performance optimization.
• Filter Composition Pipelines - Implements a composite pipeline to process files through a sequence of boolean checks for inclusion and exclusion.

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