On 9 Dec 2008, at 22:26, Daniel Kolbo wrote:
What is the preferred method with php to test and see if a file
[pattern] exists?
For example, i only need to search in one directory, that may have
any number of files named such as afile1.txt, afile2.txt,
afile3.txt, .... And also, bfile1.txt, bfile2.txt, bfile3.txt, ...
I want to see if any such file 'family' exists. That is, i want to
see if there is any file named bfile[1-9][0-9]+.txt. I don't care
which bfile number exists, i just want to know if any bfile exists.
I hope this is clear enough, if not let me know.
Use glob (http://php.net/glob) and get the size of the array returned.
Note that if there could be thousands of matching files you may want
to use opendir and readdir to look for matches instead.
-Stut
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