Getting rid of the file extension.

[ted_chou12]

For example, I have "file.txt", however, what i only want to include is the name part of the file (ie."file"), how shall i get rid of the txt part of the file?
Thanks :)

[timmah1]

This should do it

[code]
function findexts ($filename)
{
$filename = strtolower($filename) ;
$exts = split("[/\\.]", $filename) ;
$n = count($exts)-1;
$exts = $exts[$n];
return $exts;
}
[/code]

[ted_chou12]

thanks :D

[papaface]

Simpler:
[code]list($name, $extension) = explode('.', $filename);[/code]
$name = without extension
$extension = extension

[timmah1]

I have to start thinking more simply  :D

[kenrbnsn]

That won't work if the filename has more that one period in it.

[code]<?php
$fn = "test.one.two";
list($name,$ext) = explode('.',$fn);
echo $name."<br>";
echo $ext;
?>[/code]

will echo "one" for the extension.

A better way would be to use the [url=http://www.php.net/basename]basename()[/url] function.

[code]<?php
$fn = "test.one.two";
$pi = pathinfo($fn);
echo '<pre>' . print_r($pi,true) . '</pre>';
?>[/code]

Ken