[RESOLVED] Regex

Phoenix_Down

I have some strings:

$directory = "/something/to/this/dir";

Can someone please show me how to get it so it display just after the last /? So in this case, it will display dir.

Thanks alot.

~PD

Piranha

Take a look at PHP String Functions and I'm sure that you can find what you need.

[edit]
Btw, you don't need regex to do this.
[/edit]

NogDog

[man]basename/man

Phoenix_Down

$directory = "/something/to/this/dir";

What I mean I want to make /something/to/this/ into an string and dir into another string. I want it to work like that for all string. e.g. /whatever/ok (ok into one string and /whatever/ into another string.

halojoy

you could explode into an array
and make an [man]array_pop[/man], into $dir
and then implode the rest into a $path

<?php

$string = $directory = "/something/to/this/dir";

// remove any leading or trailing '/'
$string = trim($string, '/');

// $bits is an array with every part
$bits = explode( '/', $string );
// TEST display array
echo '<pre>'.print_r($bits,true).'</pre>';

// pop last bit into $dir
$dir = array_pop($bits);

// implode the rest into path string again
// adding a '/' in front
$path = '/'.implode('/', $bits);

echo 'path= '.$path;
echo '<br>';
echo 'dir= '.$dir;
?>

halojoy

this is the short version
without comments 🙂

<?php

$string = $directory = "/something/to/this/dir";

$bits = explode('/', trim($string,'/'));
$dir  = array_pop($bits);
$path = '/' . implode('/', $bits);

echo 'path= '.$path.'<br>dir= '.$dir;

?>

Piranha

Or you could look at the links from the page that NogDog posted, there is a way to do it automatically.

NogDog

Piranha wrote:
Or you could look at the links from the page that NogDog posted, there is a way to do it automatically.

In other words, why reinvent the [man]dirname/man and [man]basename/man functions? 🙂

Phoenix_Down

Thank you guys for your help.