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Re: [PHP3] Path From: Adam Trachtenberg (adam <email protected>)
Date: 01/26/99

> > Now, for the second half of the question... since I'm horrible at regex,
> > does anybody know the regular expression that will take this:
> >
> > /home2/users/whatever/
> >
> > and extract 'whatever'

$path = '/a/b/c/d/e/f/g/gimmethis/';
ereg('/?([^/]+)/?$',$path,$directory);
echo "$directory[1]<BR>";

If you know that the path will always have a leading and trailing /, then
you can remove the ?s from the pattern in ereg().

-adam 

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