Unlinking *.whatever

[ibanez270dx]

Hi,
I'm trying to do an unlink command like so: unlink(*.xls) . It doesn't work and I have tried it with single and double quotes. Can anyone help me?

Thanks!
- Jeff

[AndyB]

Use the glob() function to generate an array of all .xls files in a folder.

Loop through the array and unlink each one separately.

[tomfmason]

try this.

[code=php:0]
$dir = "path/to/folder";

foreach (glob($dir . "*.xls") as $files) {
    unlink($files);
}
[/code]

Hope this helps,
Tom

[tomfmason]

You have to be careful with this. It will delete all of the files with the ext of xls in that folder and all sub folders.

[ibanez270dx]

Thanks! I used this:

[code=php:0]
foreach (glob("*.xls") as $filename)
{
  unlink($filename);
}
[/code]

It works perfectly. And yes, I did need to delete all the files with a *.xls extension.