Need help with PHP wildcards or regular expressions

[prototype18]

Okay, I have a problem.  I need to display multilple output of a file with a similar file name

 

I.E.

 

file1: 6002010.pdf

file2: 6002010.mmddyyyy.pdf

 

Now the first part of the file stays the same, but there is a time stamp on modified versions of the file.  But in my output I need to display all the files with the 6002010.

 

Could I use a wildcard such as 6002010* to get all the files to output on the screen?  Or do I need to use a regular expression?

 

[prototype18]

Is GLOB what PHP programmers use for this situation?

[Pikachu2000]

If all you need to do is list the files, this should work on most *nix systems.

 

</php
echo '<pre>';
echo `ls 6002010*`; // add the path to the directory
echo </pre>;
?>