Hello Sam, Consider using opendir(), readdir(), fopen(), file_get_contents(), fwrite(). -- With best regards from Ukraine, Andre Skype: Francophile; Wlm&MSN: arthaelon @ yandex.ru; Jabber: arthaelon @ jabber.org Yahoo! messenger: andre.polykanine; ICQ: 191749952 Twitter: m_elensule ----- Original message ----- From: Sam Smith <ss@xxxxxxxxxx> To: php-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxx <php-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Wednesday, June 2, 2010, 9:24:20 PM Subject: Parse info from 1,000 files to file Can someone briefly point me to the functions I'll need to parse some information from thousands of files in a single directory and then prepare the extracted info into a single file for SQL import? Like file() or readfile() and some regex and writefile?? Thanks -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php