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Re: [PHP-DB] file_exists()??any wildcards From: Gary Cooke (gcooke <email protected>)
Date: 12/11/00

Thanks.

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** Reply to note from "Gary" <kcooke <email protected>> Sun, 10 Dec 2000
21:45:32 -0500
>
> Can someone tell me if file_exists( ) can use wildcards in the string
> file? And if so what are they? I want the system to look for a file
> with a known directory and the first six digits of the file name are
> known. But I want to end the file name with like *.*, but this did
> not work. Is there maybe another way?

Sorry, file_exists() looks for an exact file name. You probably need
to use opendir() readdir() and closedir() to read the directory and see
if a matching file exists.

Rick Widmer
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http://www.developersdesk.com 

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