Don't use a regex: Try:
$input = "http://www.test.com/path1/thisdoc.html"; ; // find last occurence of "/" $pos = strrpos( $input, "/" ) ; // extract until this position $output = substr( $input, 0, $pos - strlen( $input ) + 1 ) ; echo $output ; HTH Ignatius ____________________________________________ ----- Original Message ----- From: "Herhuth, Ron" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, January 06, 2003 3:51 PM Subject: [PHP-WIN] Extract Path from URL I'm having a tough time getting my head around regular expressions. Could somebody show me how to extract the path (minus the file name) from this URL: http://www.test.com/path1/thisdoc.html I would like to extract this: http://www.test.com/path1/ Thanks in advance, Ron -- PHP Windows Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php -- PHP Windows Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
