I need a regular expression that would take the string after the last forward slash.
For example, considering I have the following string:
C:/dir/file.txt
I need to take only the file.txt part (string).
Thank you :)
3 Answers
You don't need a regex.
$string = "C:/dir/file.txt";
$filetemp = explode("/",$string);
$file = end($filetemp);
Edited because I remember the latest PHP spitting errors out about chaining these types of functions.
Comments
If your strings are always paths you should consider the basename() function.
Example:
$string = 'C:/dir/file.txt';
$file = basename($string);
Otherwise, the other answers are great!
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The strrpos() function finds the last occurrence of a string. You can use it to figure out where the file name starts.
$path = 'C:/dir/file.txt';
$pos = strrpos($path, '/');
$file = substr($path, $pos + 1);
echo $file;
