[snip] client1/album/album_121-2132_IMG.JPG client2/album/album_121-2132_IMG.JPG
client59/album/album_121-2132_IMG.JPG client499887/album/album_121-2132_IMG.JPG I want to select whatever comes after the last forward slash, like album_121-2132_IMG.JPG [/snip] you could try without regular expressions $string = 'client1/album/album_121-2132_IMG.JPG'; $arr = explode('/',$string); print $arr[count($arr) - 1]; -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php