CODEWITHSUNDEEP
phpregexdrupal-7
sisko
sisko

Reputation: 9910

Regular expression filename matching

I am writing a PHP function in Drupal to detect duplicate file uploads and attempting to compare the uploaded filename to previously uploaded files.

I have example files of:

trees-nature_0.jpg
trees-nature_1.jpg
trees-nature0.jpg
trees-nature.jpg

I am trying to match all of them all using the following code:

file_scan_directory('image/uploads', "/trees-nature[*]?.jpg/");

However, all I get back is trees-nature.jpg.

I would appreciate some correction.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 61

Answers (2)

karthik manchala
karthik manchala

Reputation: 13650

You can use the following:

file_scan_directory('image/uploads', '/trees-nature(.*?)\.jpg/');

Correction:

  • [ ] cannot be used as parentheses.. it has special meaning in regex
  • * is not wildcard in regex.. you have to use .*
  • . also has special meaning here (any character) you need to escape it

Upvotes: 0

anubhava
anubhava

Reputation: 786261

Your regex is not correct. use:

file_scan_directory('image/uploads', '/trees-nature.*?\.jpg/');

Upvotes: 2

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