Trying to extract string question

I have a bunch of files like the two below:

1-2-7897A2-2.jpg

1-2-7897A2-12.jpg

I need to get the text between the last "-" and the "."

I am not sure where to start?

Any hints or suggestion I really appreciate it I am a newb.

Thanks

TJ🙂

There are several ways.One of it:
1st u do a explode for the '-':
$ar1 = explode('-',$string);

Then u will have the last element (eg 12.jpg) in:
$last_element = $ar1[ count($ar1) - 1];

Then u do another explode for the '.':
$ar2 = explode('.',$last_element);

And you will have what u need in $ar2[ count($ar2) - 1]

Or if u have php 5.3:
stristr(substr($string,strrpos($string,'-') + 1)),'.',true);

And u can start here:
http://www.php.net/manual/en/ref.strings.php

Cheers😉

zyon_z;10984346 wrote:
Or if u have php 5.3:
stristr(substr($string,strrpos($string,'-') + 1)),'.',true);

Zyon

Thanks for all you help....that works awesome!

😃

Take those functions i used one by one and try to see what's happening,will help u learn some more about strings.