> -Original Message-
> From: Boyd, Todd M. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Wednesday, December 10, 2008 8:28 AM
> To: php-general@lists.php.net
> Subject: RE: Re: [PHP] file_exists and wildcard/regex
>
> FWIW, I would probably do the file search like this (UNTESTE
> -Original Message-
> From: Per Jessen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Wednesday, December 10, 2008 1:43 AM
> To: php-general@lists.php.net
> Subject: Re: [PHP] file_exists and wildcard/regex
>
> Ashley Sheridan wrote:
>
> > If you're on a Linux s
Ashley Sheridan wrote:
> If you're on a Linux system, you could look at ls and the regular
> expressions it lets you use with it. You could exec out and get the
> returned results. Also, as it's a system call, it should be very
> speedy.
'ls' is just a plain binary (/bin/ls), not a system call.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> I'm not sure how glob works in the guts, but I know it is dog-slow for
> large numbers of files (or maybe just large numbers of results).
>
I'm not sure what the context of this was, but the speed of searching a
directory with a large number of files, e.g. 100,000s,
I'm not sure how glob works in the guts, but I know it is dog-slow for large
numbers of files (or maybe just large numbers of results).
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On Tue, 2008-12-09 at 12:54 -1000, Daniel Kolbo wrote:
>
> Daniel Kolbo wrote:
> > What is the preferred method with php to test and see if a file
> > [pattern] exists?
> >
> > For example, i only need to search in one directory, that may have any
> > number of files named such as afile1.txt, af
Daniel Kolbo wrote:
What is the preferred method with php to test and see if a file
[pattern] exists?
For example, i only need to search in one directory, that may have any
number of files named such as afile1.txt, afile2.txt, afile3.txt,
And also, bfile1.txt, bfile2.txt, bfile3.txt,
On 9 Dec 2008, at 22:26, Daniel Kolbo wrote:
What is the preferred method with php to test and see if a file
[pattern] exists?
For example, i only need to search in one directory, that may have
any number of files named such as afile1.txt, afile2.txt,
afile3.txt, And also, bfile1.txt
What is the preferred method with php to test and see if a file
[pattern] exists?
For example, i only need to search in one directory, that may have any
number of files named such as afile1.txt, afile2.txt, afile3.txt,
And also, bfile1.txt, bfile2.txt, bfile3.txt, ...
I want to see if an
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