Re: Unlink question more or less

On Tue, 11 Jun 2002, Tom Ray wrote: > I want to use unlink() to delete a wildcard, but at the moment I keep > getting parse errors. Here's what happening: > > I'm mucking around with some login stuff, when a user logs in it writes > a flat file that collects some information about them, the flat file is > created with the name username.dateyeartime Now each time they log in I > want to delete that file and replace it with the new file that has the > latest dateyeartime ending on it. I've tried unlink (username.*); but > that returns an error. Is there a way for unlink() to recongize > wildcards? If not how would I do this? Once glob() makes it into the production version, foreach(glob('*') as $f) unlink($f); Until then, use system('rm *'); or a readdir loop. unlink() is not the rm command. It's a system call that deletes a specific named file. miguel