Counting Files

I am trying to count the number of files that have a particular string in their file names in a specified directory. Something like:

$number = count("*$string*.*");

Any ideas? Thanks

this is one way ..
I think ..

$path="/path/from/root/specifieddir";
$string = "sfd";

$d = dir("$path");
$i=0;
while($entry=$d->read()) {
if($f=str_replace($string,"",$entry){
$i++;
}
}
print "$i dirs or files in $path contained $string";


[This message has been edited by kvack (edited January 11, 2000).]