PHP wildcard?

[drmota]

Hello,

 

I am using this PHP script which needs to open several different files with similar names and extensions.

 

This means: fopen(file_1.txt);

 

However, I have about 300 of those files which I need to open and I don't want to rename them one by one. PERL had this awesome feature where you could create a variable with an asterix (wildcard) which would then find anything matching, using a wildcard.

 

Something like: fopen(file_*.txt);

 

^Would open all files which had file_SOMETHING.txt in them.

 

So is there anything like this in PHP?

 

thanks in advance!

[codefossa]

http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.glob.php

[voip03]

<?php

function openFile($file)
{
	$file=fopen("$file","r");
}
$file='welcome.txt';// demo name
$newFile=  openFile($file)
?>

[silkfire]

glob() is your answer mate. But if there order is continous, why can't you make a loop?

 

for ($i = 1; $i < 300; $i++)

  $file = fopen("file_$i.txt");