[t_hah]

I am listing a directory and saving all the contents into a text file. Then I am taking every row of this list into an array. I am looking for a way to check if the end if the array element end with .jpg or .gif. What PHP function can do this for me? Is there a way to check an array element's last 3 characters?

Thank you,


t

[milf]

I'm not sure about in PHP, but normally I'd use a regex to match the last three characters that I was looking for.

Something like this in Perl:

print "This is a jpg file" if m/\.jpg$/i;

I'm not sure if the same regex syntax applies for PHP though.

[SPiNdustrious]

if(ereg("\.gif$", "$filename") or ereg("\.jpg$", "$filename"){
/*Write to file here*/
}

Be sure to remove the newline character first by trim()ing the string.

The ereg function has the following syntax: ereg(regex, string). Put both the regular expression and the string in which to search in quotes. There is more info on this at http://www.php.net/ereg .

Peter

[Xeo]

or:

if (substr($filename, -3) == 'jpg') $type = 'JPEG';

To me, it seems better than regular expressions. You could also do a -4 and check for '.jpg' just to be sure. As stated above, you'll have to make sure it's trim()'d so the newline doesn't count.

[t_hah]

Originally posted by Xeo:
or:

if (substr($filename, -3) == 'jpg') $type = 'JPEG';

To me, it seems better than regular expressions. You could also do a -4 and check for '.jpg' just to be sure. As stated above, you'll have to make sure it's trim()'d so the newline doesn't count.

Thank you for all of your inputs. I will try them out all.

t

[t_hah]

For some reason the ereg function did not work, it kept giving me php errors, the substr function worked very well.
Thank you for both of you again for the response,


t