[gray]

if i had filename.jpg and wanted it to be filename, what function do i use?

[smallbeer]

$str = "filename.jpg";
echo substr($str, 0, 4);

?

[gray]

hmm that changed it to "file"

[gray]

i have to look for the . in the string and delete that and everything after it somehow

[datahound]

you have to get the length of the string in chars first and work back from that. I will look up, wait there.

[gray]

$var = "filename.jpg";
$newvar = preg_replace("#^(.*)\.[A-Za-z\.]+$#", "\\1", $var);
echo $newvar;

apparently

[datahound]

$str = "filename.jpg";
$strlength = strlen($str);
$adjust = $strlength - 4;
echo substr($str, 0, $adjust);

something like that?

[dan]

or if it was always .jpg's you could use

$text = ereg_replace(".jpg", "" , $text);

but then that'd replace all instances of .jpg in the filename, so not so great. Your's is better.

(that'd be grays I was on about )

[datahound]

http://www.computer-broker.co.uk/testlen.php

well it worked anyway.

[gray]

hah cheers lads, more than one way to skin a.. string.. sigh

[smallbeer]

haha. or...

I missed the minus sign.

<?php
$str = "filename.jpg";
echo substr($str, 0, -4);
?>

aslong as it's always a 3 character filename.

where's that cat.

[andymoo]

thye other way would be to explode it through the dot that would create an array with two parts filename and jpg.

hth

[xml]

How about you make it usable for all extensions?

<?php
function cutExt($str) {
return substr($str, 0, strrpos($str, '.'));
}

echo cutExt('hello.ext') . '<br />' . cutExt('hello.sheep.sex') . '<br />' . cutExt('hello.gif') . '<br />' . cutExt('hello.jpg') . '<br />' . cutExt('hello.jpeg');
?>