How to pull a sub string out of a variable?

[james0816]

I can do this in regular programming code but since i'm not familiar with php, i need a little help.

I am passing a UNC file string value to another page. Looks like this: \\<server>\folder\folder\file

I would just like to strip the file portion off of this variable. The catch to this is that sometimes the length of the value can change. (I.e. \\<server>\folder\folder\folder\file) and the file name can be of any length too.

Any suggestions on how to do this?

thx

 

[sleipnir214]

I can do this in regular programming code but since i'm not familiar with php

So PHP isn't regular programming code?


Explode the string on "\" into an array then take the last element.

<?php
$a = '\\a\b\c\d\e';

$b = explode('\\', $a);
print array_pop($b);
?>

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[james0816]

lol....not to me...i'm used to visual basic. web programming is a different language. or at least...what i've seen so far.

thx...that worked purty well.

 

[sleipnir214]

Web programming isn't a language. It's a methodology. You can program web apps in c, C++, perl, python, PHP and a host of other languages.

PHP got it start as a web-specific language. But it has since then significantly grown.



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