Wildcard Question

[Hans-Stefan Suhle]

Hi, all!

On my "Recent Visits" list, I try to exclude all *.googlebot.com and the
like.
Now, I tried the following:

if (($HOST != "*.blah.com")
AND ($HOST != "*.googlebot.com")
AND ($HOST != "*.inktomisearch.com"))
{
// log this host
}

Nevertheless, it doesn't work.
How would I use the wildcard? I did not find any documentation on
wildcards.

Anyone willing to help? Thanks!

HSS
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[Tim Van Wassenhove]

On 2004-01-24, Hans-Stefan Suhle <Bo***********@Suhle.de> wrote:

Hi, all!

On my "Recent Visits" list, I try to exclude all *.googlebot.com and the
like.
Now, I tried the following:

if (($HOST != "*.blah.com")
AND ($HOST != "*.googlebot.com")
AND ($HOST != "*.inktomisearch.com"))
{
// log this host
}

Nevertheless, it doesn't work.
How would I use the wildcard? I did not find any documentation on
wildcards.

You'll find more when you start looking for "regular expression".

But if you only need to compare the ending of a string, you could do it
with substr to and strlen too.

Get the length of ".blah.com" into $len
Compare with the last $len characters of $HOST.
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[Jochen Buennagel]

Hans-Stefan Suhle wrote:

if (($HOST != "*.blah.com")
AND ($HOST != "*.googlebot.com")
AND ($HOST != "*.inktomisearch.com")) How would I use the wildcard? I did not find any documentation on
wildcards.

There's no documentation because there are no wildcards in string
comparisons. You could user preg_match() to that effect.

Jochen

[Chung Leong]

There's a function called fnmatch that does what you want (it's in the
freaking manual!!!). It's only found in PHP v.4.3+ and only on *nix
versions.

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Hi, all!

On my "Recent Visits" list, I try to exclude all *.googlebot.com and the
like.
Now, I tried the following:

if (($HOST != "*.blah.com")
AND ($HOST != "*.googlebot.com")
AND ($HOST != "*.inktomisearch.com"))
{
// log this host
}

Nevertheless, it doesn't work.
How would I use the wildcard? I did not find any documentation on
wildcards.

Anyone willing to help? Thanks!

HSS
--
A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text.
Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing?
A: Top-posting.
Q: What is the most annoying thing on usenet?

[Hans-Stefan Suhle]

On Sat, 24 Jan 2004 19:51:00 -0500, Chung Leong wrote:

There's a function called fnmatch that does what you want (it's in the
freaking manual!!!). It's only found in PHP v.4.3+ and only on *nix
versions.

Thank you all for your help!
I solved it this way: (not confirmed yet to be working)

if ((fnmatch ("*.blah.com", $HOST))
AND (fnmatch ("*.googlebot.com", $HOST))
AND (fnmatch ("*.inktomisearch.com", $HOST)))
{
break;
}
else
{
//log this host
}

HSS
--
A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text.
Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing?
A: Top-posting.
Q: What is the most annoying thing on usenet?