Re: searching for files in a directory with a specific structure.

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babu wrote:
I have a directory which has thousands of files based on date. for example
yyyymmdd-number(auto increment).txt
20050101-0001.txt,20050101-0002.txt............................20050101-0210.txt
20050102-0001.txt,20050102-0002.txt..............................20050102-0141.txt

and many other files, but i want to extract data from the files with the above format.

I have seen in the php documentation for reading a directory,but not files with a specific structure.i could not able to write the correct regular expression for the filename match.
can some one give an idea.

Check out http://php.net/glob. This might not be the best way to do it if you have *lots* of files since it returns all matches in an array.

A regex to match might look something like \d\d\d\d\d\d\-\d\d\d\d\.txt but I'm no regex expert.

-Stut

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