### Finding Groups

Sentry provides simple methods to find you your groups.

### Exceptions

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**Cartalyst\Sentry\Groups\GroupNotFoundException**

If the provided group was not found, this exception will be thrown.

### Find all the Groups {#find-all-the-groups}

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This will return all the groups.

#### Example

	$groups = Sentry::findAllGroups();

### Find a group by its ID {#find-a-group-by-its-id}

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Find a group by it's ID.

#### Example

	try
	{
		$group = Sentry::findGroupById(1);
	}
	catch (Cartalyst\Sentry\Groups\GroupNotFoundException $e)
	{
		echo 'Group was not found.';
	}

### Find a Group by it's Name {#find-a-group-by-its-name}

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Find a group by it's name.

#### Example

	try
	{
		$group = Sentry::findGroupByName('admin');
	}
	catch (Cartalyst\Sentry\Groups\GroupNotFoundException $e)
	{
		echo 'Group was not found.';
	}