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how to match a date in array of date and grep that text file

sujit kumar

12y1.3kPHP

I have to search a specific date of data among more than 1 files , like I have 5 files with different dates ,,01-05-2014, 10-05-2014, 15-05-2014, 01-06-2014and 08-06-2014,,, and date to search is 17-05-2014 will exist in file with creation/modification date 15-05-2014. so how can I do this? please suggest me. thanks for your help

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Wim Sturkenboom12y ago
This should get you started: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/10663641/grep-with-f-like-in-php

Loop through all the files; if preg_grep returns an array, you've found the file and can do whatever you want to do with it.

See also:
http://php.net/manual/en/function.preg-grep.php
http://php.net/manual/en/function.file.php
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