sasi Posted April 12, 2007 Share Posted April 12, 2007 $string = "/home/localftp1/DTFFiles/tr_his1240.dtf"; preg_match('|/([^/]+)\z|', $string, $match); echo $match[1]; hello thank you very much i got the result with your code,but now watch the following code: <?php $username="root"; $password=""; $database="mic"; $host="localhost"; $flag = true; $search=$_POST['search'];//text field value where we give the file name with ext as input //echo $search."<br>"; mysql_connect($host,$username,$password); mysql_select_db($database) or die( "Unable to select database"); $fsearch="SELECT Fname from logging"; $result1=mysql_query($fsearch); $num1=mysql_num_rows($result1); while($row = mysql_fetch_array($result1)) { $fstring=$row['Fname']; preg_match('|/([^/]+)\z|', $fstring, $match); //echo $match[1]."<br>"; foreach($match as $value) { //echo $value."<br>"; if($value === $search){ echo "File Found:".$search."<br>"; break; } else{ echo "File Not Found:".$search."<br>"; break; } } } ?> now if i had given some filename with extension in the text field, that value is compared and if found then i have to display that file is founded but in the while loop i am getting all the values from the database and then i am parsing that string and getting only the filename from that and later unable to compare. please respond to this as early as possible. Quote Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/46695-i-got-the-text-from-that-but-i-am-unable-to-check-with-another-string/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
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