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
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Since you cannot predict the length of the string, the way I usually solve this kind o
f thing is by reading the damn thing BACKWARDS.
As soon as I get a slash, voilá ...
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