[SOLVED] Cut off everything after the LAST "/" ?

[Cory94bailly]

Hey guys.. I have a url and I want to take out everything past the last "/" (including the /)

 

Example: http://mysite.com/forums -changes to- http://mysite.com

                http://mysite.com/testing/2/forums -changes to- http://mysite.com/testing/2

 

 

 

I know this should not be very hard..

[.josh]

$string = preg_replace('~(^.*)/~','$1',$string);

 

or a combo of strrchr and str_replace, though it might produce unexpected results...

[thebadbad]

Why not use substr() and strrpos()?

 

$str = substr($str, 0, strrpos($str, '/'));

[Cory94bailly]

$string = preg_replace('~(^.*)/~','$1',$string);

 

or a combo of strrchr and str_replace, though it might produce unexpected results...

 

That just turned out to change it to "http://mysite.comforums"

 

 

 

Why not use substr() and strrpos()?

 

$str = substr($str, 0, strrpos($str, '/'));

That worked perfectly!

 

Thanks

[.josh]

oops my bad. I was thinking of preg_match at the time.  for preg_replace it would be:

 

$string = preg_replace('~(^.+)/.+~','$1',$string);