Hey,
I am currently making a program with php and I need to know an answer - I need to know the wildcard for all.
It may sound stupid, I know it is *(asterisk) but does php support it?

Will that work? Any other solutions?

Thanks in advance,
souradipm

This post has been edited by souradipm: Aug 19 2006, 04:18 PM

What about testing this syntax on your own PC ?
You download "easy php" from http://easyphp.org/ , the installation lasts half a minute, and you have a working webserver with php, then you put your program in a subfoler of the "www" folder and you test it !
Of course, waiting for an answer in this forum may give a faster answer, however having a working testing environment is usually very interesting.
Regards
Yordan

Thing is, my computer is a family PC and I don't want to turn it into a webserver. Also, this code is actually part of a larger program, making it so that I have to complete the program to actually test it out.

~souradipm

Unless someone knows better than me, I think the solution will require some pattern matching using a regular expression.

This will probably confuse you:
http://us3.php.net/manual/en/reference.pcr...tern.syntax.php

This is the example that best matches your situation:
http://us3.php.net/manual/en/function.preg-match.php


Of course, you'll need a reg_ex for your situation:

I think this will work for you:



All together:


This will match anything after "sometext." except a space! So "sometext.%$^%" is ok but "sometext. Hello" is not!

You should try to specify what the extention sould be.
Like any letter or number only would be:

Which means match at least "1" of any upper or lower case letter or number.
The upside to that is that it will end at either a whitespace or some non-alpha-numeric character like a punctuation mark or special character.

If you want to specify that the extention is at least 3 characters long then use this:


If you want more leadway on the size of the extention, you could specify between 2 and 4 characters like this:


For exactly 3 characters long only, use this:


I hope this helps.

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