Re: splitting a string

On Tue, Jan 5, 2010 at 13:39, Ingleby, Les <les.ingey@tynemet.ac.uk> wrote: > Hi all, first time I have posted here so please be nice. > > I am using PEAR HTTP_Upload to handle multiple file uploads. What I need to do is to take the > file name which is output using the getProp() function and then remove the file extension from the > end of the file for example: > > Original name held in the getProp() array [name] "word_doccument.docx" > > I need to put this into a string such as > > $filename = $props['name']; > > I then need to separate the file name from the file extension. > > I have been reading the php manual do please don't bother referring me to that. > > Thanks in advance. There are a couple of ways you could do this. The most straightforward way would be to use the pathinfo() function. <?php $file = 'word_document.docx'; $extension = pathinfo($file, PATHINFO_EXTENSION); $name = pathinfo($file, PATHINFO_FILENAME); ?> See http://php.net/pathinfo for more information about that function. You could also explode() it and do something with that, or you could or use some of the other many string manipulation functions. I think pathinfo() is easiest. -- Daniel Egeberg