Re: [PHP] Re: reading/parsing file names

[John Nichel]

koly wrote:

In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Koly) wrote:
my problem: 
I've got a list of files in a directory, and I'd like to get a only of 
filenames that end in ".jpg", however, exlude the files that end in 
".thumb.jpg"

ex:
file.php
index.htm
photo.jpg
photo.thumb.jpg
etc
how can I count only those files that end with ".jpg" ?

Any help appreciated.
sorry, after re-reading, I'm not sure this post makes sense - 

I'd like to get a count of all the ".jpg" files in a specific directory 
and exclude all other files. 

Secondarily, I'd like to be able to refer to only ".thumb.jpg" files for 
another instance (displaying those images) - but I assume once I figure 
out how to parse/explode/read/exclude unwanted random file names, I'll 
be able to figure out how to look for specific file names I want.

Basically, I need a kind of wildcard filename parse? Something like:

 if($file == '*.thumb.jpg')

You could use a regular expression....

if ( preg_match ( "/\.thumb\.jpg$/", $file ) ) {
        some code...
}
I prefer the Perl regex's because I know it, but the POSIX style seems 
to be more popular with the PHP 'in' crowd. :)

Perl RegEx : http://us2.php.net/manual/en/ref.pcre.php
POSIX RegEx : http://us2.php.net/manual/en/ref.regex.php
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