Maciek Sokolewicz wrote:
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.
thanks,
dK
glob()
http://www.php.net/glob
How portable is glob?
How fast is glob? Being that it searches through the entire filesystem,
this could potentially take a long time (like if i have wildcards early
in the filepath pattern and lots of matches) correct? If my file
variations (wildcards) are just at the end of of the filepaths and i
don't have more than 1000 files in the directory then will I most likely
be 'alright' with glob (in terms of time)? I have probably spent more
time now 'considering' the time implications of glob, than glob actually
would consume when operating...
Thanks for the quick response/solutions.
dK
