Re[2]: [PHP] Reg Ex

Greetings, "Boyd, Todd M.". In reply to Your message dated Friday, October 31, 2008, 17:51:59, > Someone suggested pathinfo() already... and brought up the issues of > extensions < 3 chars and files with no "basename" (i.e., ".htaccess")... > Checked out www.php.net/pathinfo, and ran a demo on my own machine. I > can't test the .htaccess problem, since I'm running Windows (and M$ > won't let you have files that start with "."), but I tested it with > "a.b.c.d" and the extension was returned as "d". Basename was > "a.b.c". M$ permissions has nothing to do with your problem. Notepad - File - Save as - .htaccess, File type: All files Here you got it. But it's easier to use more straight tools than stupid explorer. > Sounds like it will do exactly what you are trying to accomplish. For > what it's worth, if I were to do it with a regular expression, I would > use: > $filename = "us.123.kyle.20081029.zip"; > preg_match('/(.*)\..*$/', $filename, $match); I should correct you to #^((.+)(\.[^\.]+)?)$# Results will be 1 => Filename 2 => Basename 3 => Extension -- Sincerely Yours, ANR Daemon <anrdaemon@freemail.ru>