Re: Reg Ex
| From: | Eric Butera | Date: | Fri, 31 Oct 2008 13:12:36 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: Reg Ex | ||
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On Fri, Oct 31, 2008 at 9:09 AM, Warren Windvogel
<wwindvogel@iburst.co.za> wrote:
> Eric Butera wrote:
>>
>> 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.
>
> I've also run into that problem in the past. The way that I could work
> around all these issues was to document naming conventions for the files and
> validate these before using the regex to obtain the necessary information.
>
> Regards
> Warren
>
...or you could just use pathinfo and be done with it. I work for
clients. Clients shouldn't have to read a faq to upload a file.