Executing UNIX 'find' with backticks

[Anon]

I am trying to execute the UNIX 'find' command with the backtick operators in order to search for a certain type of file and get the results into an array. The command executes fine and returns results, but the results are in the wrong format. It seems as though the 'find' command returns a string of files. Ideally what I want is to assign each file it finds to a different array element. In perl this was easy. All I had to do was @arrayName = system("find....") and it would put each line of the result into an array element. Any suggestions?
Thanks!!

[balsdorf]

Provided it returns in with \n between the lines, just do:

$findArray = explode("\n", find ...);

Please note the backticks as opposed to single quotes and also, if you allow the user to pass data to the find, call the "escapeshellcmd" function before hand to prevent exploits.