Yeah they are,  actaully I switched it to a static name and then added 
the time stamp as part of the information I'm gathering. Now I just 
re-write the file on each log in.

John Holmes wrote:

>You can't use wildcards. Use a system() or exec() call to do it.
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>Why use the datetime part at all? The usernames are unique, right?
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>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: Tom Ray [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
>>Sent: Tuesday, June 11, 2002 11:06 PM
>>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>>Subject: [PHP] Unlink question more or less
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>>I want to use unlink() to delete a wildcard, but at the moment I keep
>>getting parse errors. Here's what happening:
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>>I'm mucking around with some login stuff, when a user logs in it
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>>a flat file that collects some information about them, the flat file
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>>created with the name username.dateyeartime Now each time they log in
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>>want to delete that file and replace it with the new file that has the
>>latest dateyeartime ending on it. I've tried unlink (username.*); but
>>that returns an error. Is there a way for unlink() to recongize
>>wildcards? If not how would I do this?
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