How to remove an extension from a filename
Posted on September 4, 2008, Filled under PHP,
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If you need for any reason to remove an extension from a filename (string) this snippet can help you. An extension in this case is everything after the last period from the whole string.
<?php
/*
Source: Bit Repository (http://www.bitrepository.com/)
*/
function remove_filename_extension($filename)
{
$extension = strrchr($filename, ".");
$filename = substr($filename, 0, -strlen($extension));
return $filename;
}
$filename = 'This-is-a-photo-description.jpeg';
$str = remove_filename_extension($filename);
echo $str;
?>
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- September 4, 2008
- article by Gabriel C.
- 1 comment
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One Reply to "How to remove an extension from a filename"
January 31, 2009 at 7:14 AM
hey
thanks man…
can u give any full source code…here it is just a function
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