Re: how: Output of 'ls' as an array

Hey, thanks for the code. It worked great! As mentioned in a previous post, I cannot believe I did not see that in the documentation. Dan Kuykendall (aka: One who does not read the docs carefully) Andrew White wrote: > > > How would I save the output of 'ls -l' as an array. I need to be able to > > take each line and save it as an entry in an array for use later. Does > > anyone know how this can be done? > > Use exec() and pass in an array as the second parameter. This gets filled > with each line being a single item. e.g. > > <?php > > $path = "/home/httpd/html"; > $out = array(); > exec("ls -l $path", $out); > > echo "<pre>"; > for ($i = 0; $i < count($out); $i++) { > echo $out[$i] . "\n"; > } > echo "</pre>"; > > ?> > > Andrew > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, e-mail: php-general-unsubscribe@lists.php.net > For additional commands, e-mail: php-general-help@lists.php.net > To contact the list administrators, e-mail: php-list-admin@lists.php.net