note 110137 deleted from function.filetype by aharvey

Note Submitter: brian dot burleigh at bigpond dot com ---- Use array to decompose any.file_name.file_type on the last ".". Haven't considered execution efficiency... (and I'm not up to colouring in!) <?php // Testbed for Filename split function subroutine returns .suffix from a filename // Filename input from CLI command parameter var_dump($argv); $pfile_name = $argv[1]; // Print Results echo "Split: " .filenamesplit($pfile_name)[0]."|||".filenamesplit($pfile_name)[1].PHP_EOL; // ------------------------------------ function filenamesplit($file_name) { // Parse filename by decompostion into array $bitearr =explode(".",$file_name); // break into bites on the dots $bite_els =count($bitearr); // Number of bites $prefarr = array_slice($bitearr,0,$bite_els-1); //drop last element $prefix_name = implode(".",$prefarr); // just reassemble without last bite $suffix_name = ".".end($bitearr); //Dot plus last bite return array($prefix_name, $suffix_name) ; } // Sample Input: string(13) ".my.file.type" // Split: .my.file|||.type ?>