Re: Reg Ex

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Hi all,

It depends on what he really want, but pathinfo really is a better option

My test worked perfectly on files with no extension and without name...

<?php
var_dump( pathinfo( '.htaccess' ));
var_dump( pathinfo( 'htaccess' ));
die( );
?>

On Fri, Oct 31, 2008 at 2:57 PM, Daniel P. Brown
<daniel.brown@xxxxxxxxxxxx>wrote:

> On Fri, Oct 31, 2008 at 9:53 AM, Kyle Terry <kyle@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > Thanks for the reply. For now I used substr($filename,0,-4) and that
> worked
> > perfectly. I need to learn reg ex badly :(.
>
>     Before you do that, learn to read and follow along in an email
> thread that you start.  We gave you perfect pointers as to (a) why
> regexp's aren't needed in this case; and (b) how to better handle it.
>
>    Your substr() routine won't work as expected in all cases.
> Imagine either an .htaccess file or an extensionless file named
> `quagmire`.  You'll come up with `cess` and `mire`, respectively.
>
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