Re: filter files in a directory

You need to have a look at the regular expression functions like ereg, eregi, ereg_replace, eregi_replace and the preg functions. The manual itself doesn't document regular expression pattern matching that well, but there is a reasonable starter article here: http://www.phpbuilder.com/columns/dario19990616.php3 Anyhoo, rather than testing for $files != "*.config" you need to test for !ereg('.config$', $files) which means if the file doesn't END with .config. Similarly, you could also rule out .. and . with another regular expression: !eregi('^.', $files) Revised code, untested: <? if($handle = opendir('/path/to/list/directory')) { while(false !== ($files = readdir($handle))) { if(!eregi('^.', $files) && !eregi('.config$', $files)) { echo $files; } } } ?> Justin French on 27/08/02 4:03 AM, rdkurth@starband.net (rdkurth@starband.net) wrote: > I am showing a directory of files and I don't what all the files to > show on the screen. I was able to get the . and the .. not to show > with what I have below but there are some other files in there that look > like this mylist.confg. I don't want them to show in the directory > list. I tried && $files != "*.config" but this did not work . > Anybody have an suggestions on how to do this . I have look through > the manual and the mailing list but can't figure out how to make the > pattern to keep this from showing > > if ($handle = opendir('/path/to/list/directory')) { > while (false !== ($files = readdir($handle))) { > if ($files != "." && $files != "..") { > echo $files; > } >