Børge Holen wrote:
> On Monday 18 February 2008 00:10:30 John Meyer wrote:
>> Daniel Brown wrote:
>>> On Feb 17, 2008 5:37 PM, nihilism machine <nihilismmachine@xxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
>>>> i am using this code to get the extension of a filename:
>>>>
>>>> $extension = strtolower(strrchr($fileName,"."));
>>>>
>>>> how can i get the text BEFORE the . (period)
>>> You can STFW and RTFM. This list should never be your first place
>>> to ask simple questions.
>>>
>>> In any case....
>>>
>>> <?
>>> $split = explode('.',strtolower($fileName));
>>> $name = $split[0];
>>> $ext = $split[1];
>>> ?>
>> Flame job aside, that's going to fail on a compound extension such as
>> ".tar.gz" by just returning .tar
>
> so.
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> it.will.fail.this.one.to.txt
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> and a fix would also fail because you would have to hardcord everygoddamn
> ending if thats what youre after. How many do you care to count for?
> I would say stick with the last dot, if its not particulary often you stumble
> over those .tar.bz2 endings.
>
> what does he want to upload anyway?
> Oi you, whats yer task?
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Regardless, a tar.gz file if it is gzipped is a gzip file. You must
gunzip it to get the tar, just like manifesto.ps.tar is still a tar that
just happens to contain postscript files ;-)
-Shawn
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