Re: Can I search for a partial match in an array ?
| From: | Lars Torben Wilson | Date: | Fri, 29 Mar 2002 02:43:58 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: Can I search for a partial match in an array ? | ||
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On Thu, 2002-03-28 at 16:50, Dalton Hunter wrote:
> Hi, I want to search for a partial match in an array? Does in_array() or
> search_array() support this or is there another way? For example if I have
> 30 file names in an array in the format ...
>
> file1.txt
> file2.txt
> pic1.gif
> pic2.gif
>
> ... how can I check to see if any values in the array start with the
> partial word "file"?
http://www.php.net/preg_grep
Hope this helps,
Torben
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