RE: Re: [PHP] file_exists and wildcard/regex

2008-12-10 Thread Boyd, Todd M.
-Original Message- From: Per Jessen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, December 10, 2008 1:43 AM To: php-general@lists.php.net Subject: Re: [PHP] file_exists and wildcard/regex Ashley Sheridan wrote: If you're on a Linux system, you could look at ls and the regular

RE: Re: [PHP] file_exists and wildcard/regex

2008-12-10 Thread Boyd, Todd M.
-Original Message- From: Boyd, Todd M. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, December 10, 2008 8:28 AM To: php-general@lists.php.net Subject: RE: Re: [PHP] file_exists and wildcard/regex FWIW, I would probably do the file search like this (UNTESTED): ?php $filereg

Re: [PHP] file_exists and wildcard/regex

2008-12-09 Thread Stut
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,

Re: [PHP] file_exists and wildcard/regex

2008-12-09 Thread Daniel Kolbo
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,

Re: [PHP] file_exists and wildcard/regex

2008-12-09 Thread Ashley Sheridan
On Tue, 2008-12-09 at 12:54 -1000, Daniel Kolbo 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,

Re: [PHP] file_exists and wildcard/regex

2008-12-09 Thread ceo
I'm not sure how glob works in the guts, but I know it is dog-slow for large numbers of files (or maybe just large numbers of results). -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php

Re: [PHP] file_exists and wildcard/regex

2008-12-09 Thread Per Jessen
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm not sure how glob works in the guts, but I know it is dog-slow for large numbers of files (or maybe just large numbers of results). I'm not sure what the context of this was, but the speed of searching a directory with a large number of files, e.g. 100,000s,

Re: [PHP] file_exists and wildcard/regex

2008-12-09 Thread Per Jessen
Ashley Sheridan wrote: If you're on a Linux system, you could look at ls and the regular expressions it lets you use with it. You could exec out and get the returned results. Also, as it's a system call, it should be very speedy. 'ls' is just a plain binary (/bin/ls), not a system call. The