This method, though, assumes that all extensions are exactly three
characters long.

What about extensions such as pl, py, h, among others?



Pedro Graca wrote:
> Kim Jensen wrote:
>
>>while (list ($key, $val) = each ($list)) {
>> echo "<a href=test.php?name=$val>$val</a><br>";
>>
>>}
>>
>>Here I'd like the $val after the name= to be just the filename without
>>the extention (all files in the directory are txt files)
>
>
> echo '<a href="test.php?name=', substr($val, -4), ">$val</a><br";
>
>
>>and then the
>>second $val which it shows in the list to be the value of the line
>>charname= in the txt files themselves.
>
>
> Are you really sure you want to do that?
> You have top open each and every file, read/print its contents, and close
> the file. It might be a lot slow!
>
>
> /* needs error-checking for fopen() and fgets() */
> foreach ($list as $val) {
> $f = fopen($val);
> while (!feof(f)) {
> $line = fgets($f);
> if (preg_match('/^charname=(.*)$/', $line, $matches)) {
> echo '<a href="test.php?name=', urlencode(substr($val, -4)),
> '">', $matches[1], '</a><br>';
> break; /* leave inner while() */
> }
> }
> fclose($f);
> }

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