On Wed, 2009-01-07 at 20:24 +0800, Sn!per wrote: > Let's say I have these URLs > > http://example.com/index.php?q=gallery > http://example.com/index.php?q=gallery&g2_itemId=81 > http://example.com/index.php?q=gallery&g2_itemId=100 > > I want to have a line of code that will extract just the > "http://example.com/index.php?q=gallery" part of the URL. > > I am never good with regex, please help. TIA. > > -- > roger > > > > > -- > Sign Up for free Email at http://ureg.home.net.my/ > > Why do you need a regex here? All the URL's have the same foremost component, which is exactly 38 characters in length. Do you perchance need a regualr expression to parse other URL's? If you just need to extract everything before the first ampersand, then strpos and substr would be the best to use. Ash www.ashleysheridan.co.uk -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php