using php to check file names

[fogofogo]

Hello folks.I have a question about using php to select a file according to date. I am working on a project that uses xml to display horoscopes on a website. The xml feeds are ftp'd onto our server and have a different file name depending on the date. Unfortunetly this is the only way the xml is available.The filenaming is:Feed_name_YYYYMMDDHHMMSS_$storyid.xmlFor example:TMG_Horoscopes_Daily_Virgo_media_20060216100017_985313.xmlI'll be using php to do this, and as I'm fairly new to it, I'm not sure where to go from here. Does anyone have any advice, scripts or tutorials that might be able to help me?Thanks guys,John

[hacknsack]

You could explode the string, then grab the date with substr()

$str = 'TMG_Horoscopes_Daily_Virgo_media_20060216100017_985313.xml';$parts = explode("_", $str);$j = count($parts) - 2;echo substr($parts[$j], 0, 8);

But I'm not sure exactly what you are asking.-hs

[DarkElf]

alternatively if you swapped the date and the $storyid around you could use a regular expression followed by $ symbol to show that it has to match at the end of the string, its pretty much the same thing but uses less code.