Substring between two different characters?

Question

I'm looking for a way to get a substring in php. Given string is: "abc/def/ghi/name.extension"

I only want to have 'name', and the number of forward slashes is not known and not the same number either. Tried it with substring, but I get stuck in the elimination of the /

Anyone an idea how to solve this?

Help is greatly appreciated!

This should be closed as a duplicate anyway rather than answering something that has already been answered. — Nigel Ren, Mar 28 '18 at 06:13

score 5 · Answer 1 · answered Mar 28 '18 at 05:43

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You can use pathinfo:

$str = "abc/def/ghi/name.extension";
$name = \pathinfo( $str, \PATHINFO_FILENAME );

answered Mar 28 '18 at 05:43

Paul

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score -1 · Answer 2 · answered Mar 28 '18 at 05:45

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Try this. First split the string into an array with explode () and then split the last element by the dot.

$a = 'abc/def/ghi/name.extension';
$b = explode ('/', $a);
$b = $b[count ($b) - 1];
$c = explode ('.', $b)[0];

answered Mar 28 '18 at 05:45

wayneOS

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score -1 · Answer 3 · answered Mar 28 '18 at 06:51

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You can try this for filename.

$filename = pathinfo("abc/def/ghi/name.extension", PATHINFO_FILENAME);
echo $filename;

and this for file extension.

$ext = pathinfo("abc/def/ghi/name.extension", PATHINFO_EXTENSION);
echo $ext;

answered Mar 28 '18 at 06:51

Praveen

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Substring between two different characters?

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