Substring between two different characters? [duplicate]

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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!

• evilReiko: Duplicate of stackoverflow.com/q/2183486/134824
• user9487972: STOP answering 5 is enough only one of them is any good
• Nigel Ren: This should be closed as a duplicate anyway rather than answering something that has already been answered.

Answer 1

You can use pathinfo:

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

Answer 2

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];

Answer 3

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;