On Fri, 21 Sep 2001 14:46:04 -0700, Mark wrote:
>On Fri, 21 Sep 2001 16:48:13 -0500, Joseph Koenig wrote:
>>Well - I just spoke with the client and apparently only one
>directory
>>was going to create that problem so they're just going to rename
the
>>directory. I guess I should have tried that solution first.
However,
>>is
>>there a way to read the string up to the point where the numbers
>>start?
>>For example, pull "AS" out of "ASxxxxx" and "MAS" out of
"MASxxxxx"?
>>I
>>looked through the string functions and didn't really see anything
>to
>>promising. Something like is_letter() would be cool :) Thanks,
>
>ereg_replace("[0-9]+","",$filename);
oops make that:
ereg_replace("[0-9].*","",$filename);
>>Joe
>>
>>Joseph Koenig wrote:
>>>
>>> Hello everyone -- I'm just a little bit stumped on this. I've got
>>>some
>>> files that are available for user download, however, the files
are
>>>in
>>> different directories. The file names are based on the item
number
>>>which
>>> is available. For example, item number "AS1000-01" is in
directory
>>>"AS"
>>> and is named "AS1000-01.xxx" -- All files will have the same
>>>extension.
>>> That's no problem. Where I'm confused is not all of the
>>>directories are
>>> 2 letter names. For example, file "BSEB10-010" is in the "BSE"
>>> directory. Some directories are 4 characters long -- all except
>the
>>> BSEB**-*** files match their directory names until the file name
>>> contains a number (ASxxxx is in "AS", MASxxxx is in "MAS", etc).
I
>>>need
>>> this script to be as dynamic as possible. I don't want to set up
>>>arrays
>>> of directory names or anything. Can I run through the string of
>>>item
>>> numbers until I hit a numeric character, and then check that
>>>substring
>>> to see if it's a directory? If it doesn't match exactly is there
a
>>>way
>>> to search for that file in directories that almost match? Any
>>>ideas? Thanks,
>>>
>>> Joe
>>>
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