note 24880 added to function.ereg

to use jokers (* and ?) in string comparaison use this function : function jokercmp($string,$mask){ static $in=array('.', '^', '$', '{', '}', '(', ')', '[', ']', '+', '*', '?'); static $out=array('\\.', '\\^', '\\$', '\\{', '\\}', '\\(', '\\)', '\\[', '\\]', '\\+', '.*', '.'); $mask='^'.str_replace($in,$out,$mask).'$'; return(ereg($mask,$string)); } examples : if(jokercmp('myfile.txt','*.txt')) [...] // this is true if(jokercmp('file001.jpg','file??.jpg')) [...] // this is false -- http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.ereg.php http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=edit+24880 http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=delete+24880 http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=reject+24880