How about:
$a = explode (' ', shell_exec ("ls $foldername/*.html"));
This should return an array that contains the name of all the *.html
files in the folder $foldername, if any.
Hope this helps.
Cheers,
Marco
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On Fri, 2002-11-08 at 09:34, Mako Shark wrote:
>
> I've tried doing a search for this problem on the web, but haven't found anything,
>nor have I found any solution on the php.net documentation.
>
>
>
> Does anyone know if it's possible to do a file search with a wildcard character? I
>need to find if there are any HTML files in a certain directory, but
>file_exists("htmls/*.html") doesn't seem to work when tested. Neither do similar
>applications of readdir(). Is there another way to do this, or do I have to do a
>readdir() and read the filename of every file until I find an HTML or until all files
>have been read.
>
>
>
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