Re: Reg Ex

Hi all, It depends on what he really want, but pathinfo really is a better option My test worked perfectly on files with no extension and without name... <?php var_dump( pathinfo( '.htaccess' )); var_dump( pathinfo( 'htaccess' )); die( ); ?> On Fri, Oct 31, 2008 at 2:57 PM, Daniel P. Brown <daniel.brown@parasane.net>wrote: > On Fri, Oct 31, 2008 at 9:53 AM, Kyle Terry <kyle@kyleterry.com> wrote: > > Thanks for the reply. For now I used substr($filename,0,-4) and that > worked > > perfectly. I need to learn reg ex badly :(. > > Before you do that, learn to read and follow along in an email > thread that you start. We gave you perfect pointers as to (a) why > regexp's aren't needed in this case; and (b) how to better handle it. > > Your substr() routine won't work as expected in all cases. > Imagine either an .htaccess file or an extensionless file named > quagmire. You'll come up with ’Hw—…&›?¢”
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