How to ignore a file to be downloaded via ftp

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I am trying to ignore specific files for download. I have this code, but it still downloads the unwanted file. Also how could I do it for more than one file to ignore?

 

if (file_exists($ignore)) {
} else {

ftp_get($conn_id, $dir" . basename($file), $file, FTP_BINARY);
}
}