Greetings, "Boyd, Todd M.".
In reply to Your message dated Friday, October 31, 2008, 17:51:59,
> Someone suggested pathinfo() already... and brought up the issues of
> extensions < 3 chars and files with no "basename" (i.e., ".htaccess")...
> Checked out www.php.net/pathinfo, and ran a demo on my own machine. I
> can't test the .htaccess problem, since I'm running Windows (and M$
> won't let you have files that start with "."), but I tested it with
> "a.b.c.d" and the extension was returned as "d". Basename was "a.b.c".
M$ permissions has nothing to do with your problem.
Notepad - File - Save as - .htaccess, File type: All files
Here you got it.
But it's easier to use more straight tools than stupid explorer.
> Sounds like it will do exactly what you are trying to accomplish. For
> what it's worth, if I were to do it with a regular expression, I would
> use:
> $filename = "us.123.kyle.20081029.zip";
> preg_match('/(.*)\..*$/', $filename, $match);
I should correct you to
#^((.+)(\.[^\.]+)?)$#
Results will be
1 => Filename
2 => Basename
3 => Extension
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Sincerely Yours, ANR Daemon <anrdaemon@xxxxxxxxxxx>
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