Posted by Janwillem Borleffs on 09/28/13 11:41

Steve wrote:
> I need to find what that text greater than one charactor appears
> after the last / in a string and ignor any file extention that may
> appear at the end of the string.
>
> example $string = "/foldername/anotherfoldername/file.txt";
>
> I was told to use preg_match() but havent a clue on what i am doing?
>

Sounds like you want the file name. For this, simply use basename():

$filename = basename($string);


JW

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