Re: separating strings from extensions

Børge Holen wrote:

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.

You could also stick with the first, i.e.: <? $split = explode('.',strtolower($fileName),1); $name = $split[0]; $ext = $split[1]; ?>