Re: Checking file extensions

On Fri, 5 Jan 2001, Ben Wiechman wrote: > Alright, what I'm trying to do is index my site and build a list of files, > but I only want files with certain extensions to be indexed and I'm having > some wierd results. > > When I use (where $entry is a file name) > if( ereg( "\.html$", $entry ) ) > Everything works great, and only files with the html extension are included > in my list. But as soon as I add more file types, for example > if( ereg( "[\.html|\.htm]$", $entry ) ) > as my condition allows files with types .htm, .html, .js, .shtml, .shtm, and > more through to be put in the list. > > Can anyone see something wrong with my re? > > Thanks for the help. > > Ben > Whoops. "(\.html|\.htm)$" The square brackets are for characters. -- Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams <ignacio@openservices.net>