Re: separating strings from extensions

On Monday 18 February 2008 00:10:30 John Meyer wrote: > Daniel Brown wrote: > > On Feb 17, 2008 5:37 PM, nihilism machine <nihilismmachine@gmail.com> wrote: > >> i am using this code to get the extension of a filename: > >> > >> $extension = strtolower(strrchr($fileName,".")); > >> > >> how can i get the text BEFORE the . (period) > > > > You can STFW and RTFM. This list should never be your first place > > to ask simple questions. > > > > In any case.... > > > > <? > > $split = explode('.',strtolower($fileName)); > > $name = $split[0]; > > $ext = $split[1]; > > ?> > > Flame job aside, that's going to fail on a compound extension such as > ".tar.gz" by just returning .tar so. it.will.fail.this.one.to.txt and a fix would also fail because you would have to hardcord everygoddamn ending if thats what youre after. How many do you care to count for? I would say stick with the last dot, if its not particulary often you stumble over those .tar.bz2 endings. what does he want to upload anyway? Oi you, whats yer task? -- --- Børge Holen http://www.arivene.net