stripping

[theBlack8]

is it possible to strip the following:

p:\signature.txt

or something like

C:\Documents and Settings\frank\Desktop\xupload-2001-09-27.zip

so that it ends up as

signature.txt

or

xupload-2001-09-27.zip

basically what I want is to strip the path and only have the file name as my end result.

If I use something like:

$fileName=ereg_replace("[\x5c]","",$file_attach);

I can get rid of the \ , but nothing else.

any help, suggestions are appreciated.

Cheers,
Frank

[Rohan_Hill]

Yeah, use:

$filename = basename ("p:\signature.txt");

that'll return just the filename on the end 🙂

[theBlack8]

thanks Rohan.

you put me on the correct path.

If I did:
$filename = basename ("p:\signature.txt");

$filename will remain as p:\signature.txt

your suggestion works if

basename("\siganture.txt")

so, I had to do the following;

$fileNameTemp=ereg_replace("[\x5c]","/",$file_attach);

$fileName=basename("$fileNameTemp");

Cheers,
Frank

[AMV]

Just for posterity, a simple algorithm to do what you're talking to is to scan backwards from the end of the string, storing each successive character in a new string buffer (in reverse order), until a forward or backwards slash is read. Something like the following, assuming $Filepath contains the full file path you're trying to extract a filename from:

$Filename = "";
for ( $Index = strlen ( $Filepath ) - 1; $Index >= 0; $Index -- )
{
    $CurrChar = $Filepath [ $Index ];
    if ( $CurrChar != '\\' && $CurrChar != '/' )
        $Filename = $CurrChar . $Filename;
    else
        break;
}

(Remember to escape the backslash)