parse string

[turbo99]

Hello all,

I am looking for the most efficient way to parse a document root.

example:

$string = /www/a/b/c/d/e.php

I need the last part of the string (e.php)

I have accomplished it by

list ($variable, etc, etc ......) = explode("/", $string);

My question, is there a more efficient way to do this? And this is a set format for the path, but I would really like to see a way that would grab the last part of the string no matter how many '/' I have.

thanks in advance,

Alex

[cgraz]

try strrchr()

It finds the last occurence of a string in the string, then returns that. So just search for / and it will return from the last slash to the end of your string.

Cgraz

[turbo99]

that worked... thx

substr(strrchr($string, '/'), 1);

[devinemke]

also look at basename and pathinfo