Bot cn exclude this directory?

[tintin74]

Hello,

I've recently include this line in my robotx.txt:

Disallow: /example

Because I need to exclude some files like example.htm, example.php ...

Unfortunatly these file are store in the directory /example_cars/

Do you think , the bot will not spider the entire directory or only the files named example.php, example.htm...

[Dijkgraaf]

The bot won't spider anything starting with /example, so by that rule anything in /example_cars/ will also be excluded.
However if you changed it to
Disallow: /example_cars/example.
(note the full stop at the end), then it won't exclude everthing in that directory but would exclude example.php, example.htm or example.html etc. in that directory.