Re: replacing directory references at beginning of file name

Dennis, NOT tested: $string = preg_replace("/^(\$|\\\|\/|\.)/i", "", $string); James. "Dennis Gearon" <gearond@oit.edu> wrote in message news:3B098810.34B68FC@oit.edu... > Could someone please send me the code for doing the above? I have the > book, "Mastering Regex, blah blah", but I don't have time to read it > until the end of the school quarter." > > I'd like to remove the following chars from the beginning of a string: > '$', '\', '/', and '.' . > > I plan on doing it like so: > > while( ereg_replace( $dir_remove_patt, "", $file_name) ){;} > > I need the value for $dir_remove_patt, and I would be most grateful. I'm > a stubborn kind of guy, and I don't usually ask for direct help; I'm not > a moocher of code. But I could use some help, thanks :-) > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, e-mail: php-general-unsubscribe@lists.php.net > For additional commands, e-mail: php-general-help@lists.php.net > To contact the list administrators, e-mail: php-list-admin@lists.php.net >