Re: Unlink question more or less

Any word on when glob() will be in the production version? thanks for the help Miquel. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Miguel Cruz" <mnc@stoic.net> To: "Tom Ray" <tom@blazestudios.com> Cc: <php-general@lists.php.net> Sent: Wednesday, June 12, 2002 2:01 AM Subject: Re: [PHP] 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 > >