phpregexfilenamestext-parsing

Get filename without its extension from a filepath string

How can I catch and sanitize the below filename?

Input:

../images/imgac00000001.jpg
../images/imgbc00000002.jpg
../images/img1111.jpg

Output:

imgac00000001
imgbc00000002
img1111

I have tried in PHP using preg_replace(), which I don't know how to use correctly.

preg_replace('/(img)[a-z]{0,2}[0-9]*/i', '$1', $img_path);
Solution

  • You need to use preg_match_all, not preg_replace

    $input = <<<EOF
../images/imgac00000001.jpg
../images/imgbc00000002.jpg
../images/img1111.jpg
EOF;

//imgac00000001
//imgbc00000002


preg_match_all('/img[a-z]{0,2}[0-9]*/i', $input, $matches);

print_r($matches);

    Output:

    Array
(
    [0] => Array
        (
            [0] => imgac00000001
            [1] => imgbc00000002
            [2] => img1111
        )

)