php-doc-en/reference/filesystem/functions/lstat.xml
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<refentry id="function.lstat">
<refnamediv>
<refname>lstat</refname>
<refpurpose>Gives information about a file or symbolic link</refpurpose>
</refnamediv>
<refsect1>
<title>Description</title>
<methodsynopsis>
<type>array</type><methodname>lstat</methodname>
<methodparam><type>string</type><parameter>filename</parameter></methodparam>
</methodsynopsis>
<para>
Gathers the statistics of the file or symbolic link named by
<parameter>filename</parameter>. This function is identical to the
<function>stat</function> function except that if the
<parameter>filename</parameter> parameter is a symbolic link, the
status of the symbolic link is returned, not the status of the
file pointed to by the symbolic link.
</para>
<para>
See the manual page for <function>stat</function> for information on
the structure of the array that <function>lstat</function> returns.
</para>
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<simpara>
See also <function>stat</function>.
</simpara>
</refsect1>
</refentry>
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