Re: Count number of files containing certain string

- Loop through all files in the directory - Use a Regex expression to match a file name on "slides" - If there is a match add the filename to an array - after loop terminates just count the number of items in the array There's an idea anyways. My php chops aren't up to snuff to whip up the code in a jippy though > I'm trying to piece together readdir() with some other code that will > let me count the number of files in a directory that match a defined > string. For example, how many files in "/dir" contain the string > "slides"? > > I need the resulting number to use in a Javascript slideshow...