Trim String with Pattern

[barkster]

I have a filename string that I need to strip out the last 5 character off the filename preserving the extension.  Can anyone help me with this?  Thanks

 

Example:

largefile12398.jpg

 

would become

largefile.jpg

 

 

 

 

[wsantos]

You could do a rough replacement

 

for($num=0;$num<=9;$num++)
  str_replace($num,"",$string);

[barkster]

Well that would work in theory but I forgot to mention there could be numbers in the rest of the name. 

[barkster]

I've been playing with it more and this is what I've come up with but I was hoping for simpler solution

 

function newfilename($filename) {
    $len = strlen($filename)-9;
    $string = substr($filename,0,$len);
    $ext = explode('.',$filename);
    $ext = $ext[count($ext)-1];
    return $string . "." . $ext;
}

[Orio]

Here are two other options for you:

 

<?php

function newname($filename)
{
$arr = explode(".", $filename);
$arr[count($arr)-2] = substr($arr[count($arr)-2], 0, -5);
return implode(".", $arr);
}

?>


<?php

function newname2($filename)
{
$ext = strrchr($filename, ".");
$filename = substr($filename, 0, -(strlen($ext)+5));
return $filename.$ext;
}

?>

 

Both tested and they work even with strings that have more than one dot in them.

 

 

Orio.

[barkster]

Cool, those look better than my hack. Thanks