wp-includes/functions.php:6908Retrieves metadata from a file.
$filestring$default_headersarray$contextstringoptional''string[]One hook fires while get_file_data() runs, in this order:
Filters extra file headers by context.
function get_file_data( $file, $default_headers, $context = '' ) { // Pull only the first 8 KB of the file in. $file_data = file_get_contents( $file, false, null, 0, 8 * KB_IN_BYTES ); if ( false === $file_data ) { $file_data = ''; } // Make sure we catch CR-only line endings. $file_data = str_replace( "\r", "\n", $file_data ); /** * Filters extra file headers by context. * * The dynamic portion of the hook name, `$context`, refers to * the context where extra headers might be loaded. * * @since 2.9.0 * * @param array $extra_context_headers Empty array by default. */ $extra_headers = $context ? apply_filters( "extra_{$context}_headers", array() ) : array(); if ( $extra_headers ) { $extra_headers = array_combine( $extra_headers, $extra_headers ); // Keys equal values. $all_headers = array_merge( $extra_headers, (array) $default_headers ); } else { $all_headers = $default_headers; } foreach ( $all_headers as $field => $regex ) { if ( preg_match( '/^(?:[ \t]*<\?php)?[ \t\/*#@]*' . preg_quote( $regex, '/' ) . ':(.*)$/mi', $file_data, $match ) && $match[1] ) { $all_headers[ $field ] = _cleanup_header_comment( $match[1] ); } else { $all_headers[ $field ] = ''; } } return $all_headers;}Introduced in 2.9.0. Unchanged from 6.7.7 through 7.1.0.
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src/wp-includes/functions.php, and regenerated for each WordPress release so it tracks the code rather than a snapshot of it.