PHP get from string

Question

$var = '<img src="http://site.com/some_directory/filename.png"/>';

png can be replaced with any extension.

How to cut everything, except "filename" part?

And write into new variable. In this case:

$name = 'filename';

One more example:

$var = '<img src="http://site.com/directory/subdirectory/Pakahontos.txt"/>';
$name = 'Pakahontos';

Thanks.

Artefacto · Accepted Answer · 2010-08-10 13:41:31Z

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preg_match('#([^/]+)\.\w+"#', $var, $matches);
$name = $matches[1];

Note that if $var is actually more complicated (e.g. has arbitrary HTML), you must use other methods (see e.g. DOMDocument).

answered Aug 10, 2010 at 13:41

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fabrik · Accepted Answer · 2010-08-10 13:41:32Z

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Here's a basic HTML-parsing tutorial with preg_match. It's parsing images in the example.

answered Aug 10, 2010 at 13:41

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