Get only the filename from a path

Question

I have this string

$string = 'C:\Folder\Sub-Folder\file.ext';

I want to change it to:

$string = 'file.ext';

Using PHP, I am trying to write a method that ignores everything left of the last \.

duplicate: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1418193/how-to-get-file-name-from-full-path-with-php — Sky, Jun 04 '15 at 20:54

John Conde · Answer 1 · 2015-06-04T17:08:54.983

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Use basename() with str_replace() as the \ in the path is not recognized by basename()

$filename = basename(str_replace('\\', '/', 'C:\Folder\Sub-Foler\file.ext'));
echo $filename; // file.ext

edited Jun 04 '15 at 17:08

answered Jun 04 '15 at 17:06

John Conde

Yeap that's it! Thanks bro. – user3807593 Jun 04 '15 at 17:08
To be correct here, it does recognize the backslash, but only on windows :) As I would say it RTM xD – Rizier123 Jun 04 '15 at 18:14

score 1 · Answer 2 · answered Jun 04 '15 at 20:32

Another solution is this:

Split the string by a delimiter(\) to form an array: ['C:', 'Folder', 'Sub-Foler', 'file.ext'] using explode: explode("\\", $string);

Get the last element in the array using the end function, which you want as the result.

Put it all together:

$string = 'C:\Folder\Sub-Foler\file.ext';
$stringPieces = explode("\\", $string);
$string = end($stringPieces);

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