Re: Regular Expressions - A relatively simple search...

mike@openconcept.on.ca (Mike Gifford) writes: > Hello, > > I'm trying to replace a couple of lines of code: > > $dotpos = 1 - (strlen($userfile_name) - strpos($userfile_name, '.')); > $extension = substr($userfile_name, $dotpos); > > with a simpler regular expression: > $extension = eregi_replace( "/.*", "", $userfile_name); > > However it isn't working.. > > What I'd like to do is to find the extension of a file name and place > that in a variable. So in '/home/mike/test.txt', I want to have the > statement return 'txt' you don't need a regular expression for that... $extension = strrchr(basename($userfile_name), '.'); -robin