Re: Wildcard search

How about: $a = explode (' ', shell_exec ("ls $foldername/*.html")); This should return an array that contains the name of all the *.html files in the folder $foldername, if any. Hope this helps. Cheers, Marco ------------- php|architect -- The Monthly Magazine For PHP Professionals Come visit us on the web at http://www.phparch.com! On Fri, 2002-11-08 at 09:34, Mako Shark wrote: > > I've tried doing a search for this problem on the web, but haven't found anything, > nor have I found any solution on the php.net documentation. > > > > Does anyone know if it's possible to do a file search with a wildcard character? I need to > find if there are any HTML files in a certain directory, but file_exists("htmls/*.html") > doesn't seem to work when tested. Neither do similar applications of readdir(). Is there > another way to do this, or do I have to do a readdir() and read the filename of every file until I > find an HTML or until all files have been read. > > > > --------------------------------- > Do you Yahoo!? > U2 on LAUNCH - Exclusive medley & videos from Greatest Hits CD