Re: Reg Ex

On Fri, Oct 31, 2008 at 8:41 AM, Kyle Terry <kyle@kyleterry.com> wrote: > I thought of a couple other ways anyway... > > basename($file, '.zip') > substr($file, 0, -4) > > On Fri, Oct 31, 2008 at 5:33 AM, Stut <stuttle@gmail.com> wrote: > >> On 31 Oct 2008, at 12:27, Kyle Terry wrote: >> >>> I'm horrible with regular expression. I need to match the text before a >>> file >>> extension. So if the file is called US.123.kyle.20081029.zip, I would then >>> need to match US.123.kyle.20081029. >>> >> >> No regex required. Why do people think everything like this needs a regex?? >> >> http://php.net/pathinfo >> >> -Stut >> >> -- >> http://stut.net/ >> > > > > -- > Kyle Terry | www.kyleterry.com > Who says every file will have an extension? Who says they're all .+3 chars? When I first started php I tried that and it failed in a lot of places.