Is this possible with Regular Expressions? 2

[rye8261]

I've never used regular expressions and I'm trying to learn them right now. I have one question before I invest a lot of time on them as this is all I'm trying to do with them.

Is is possible to have a string like this: "Images/Welcome/images/welcome image 19.gif"
An get only this part: "welcome image 19.gif"?

Also, it needs to be able to handle strings like this: "Images/Welcome/Free/images/welcome image 19.gif" and give the same result as above.

So if anyone can give me a simple yes or no I'd appreciate it and if you know how to code it, tips would be very appreciated.

Thanks,

 

[jpadie]

yes. but there are much easier ways.

consider this

$f = "Images/Welcome/images/welcome image 19.gif"
$_f = explode ('/'. $f);
print_r($_f);

the value you want will always be in the last array element

echo $_f[count($_f) -1];

alternatively you could use the built in functions within php: basename() and pathinfo();

basename() will return just the file name part of the path. pathinfo will return an associative array of information about the whole path, including tha file.

http://www.php.net/basename

and

http://www.php.net/pathinfo