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myol
myol

Reputation: 9828

remove part of string after substring

This may be a dupe, but I cannot seem to find a thread which matches this issue. I want to remove all chars from a string after a given sub-string - but the chars and the number of chars after the sub-string is unknown. Most solutions I have found seem to only work for removing the given sub-string itself or a fixed length after a given sub-string.

I have 

$str = preg_replace('(.gif*)','.gif$',$str);

Which locates 'blahblah.gif?12345' ok, but I cannot seem to remove the chars after the sub-string '.gif'. I read that $ denotes EOS so I thought this would work, but apparently not. I also tried 

'.gif$/'

and simply 

'.gif'

Upvotes: 1

Views: 136

Answers (4)

Lix
Lix

Reputation: 47956

Assuming (from OP's comment) that you are working with actual URLs as your source string, I believe that the best course of action here would be to use PHP's built-in functionality for working with and parsing URLs. You do this by using the parse_url() function:

(PHP 4, PHP 5)
parse_url — Parse a URL and return its components

This function parses a URL and returns an associative array containing any of the various components of the URL that are present.

This function is not meant to validate the given URL, it only breaks it up into the above listed parts. Partial URLs are also accepted, parse_url() tries its best to parse them correctly.

From your example: www.page.com/image.gif?123 (or even just image.gif?123) using parse_url() will look something like this:

var_dump( parse_url( "www.page.com/image.gif?123" ) );

array(2) {
  ["path"]=>
  string(22) "www.page.com/image.gif"
  ["query"]=>
  string(3) "123"
}

As you can see, without the need for regular expressions or string manipulations we have broken up the URL into it's separate components. No need to re-invent the wheel. Nice and clean :)

Upvotes: 1

Shomz
Shomz

Reputation: 37691

It can be done without regex: 

echo substr('blahblah.gif?12345', strpos('blahblah.gif?12345', '.gif') + 4);
// returns ?12345                    this is the length of the substring ^

So the code is: 

$str = 'original string';
$match = 'matching string';
$output = substr($str, strpos($str, $match) + strlen($match));

Ok, now I'm not sure if you want to keep the first or the second part of the string. Anyway, here's the code for keeping the first part: 

echo substr('blahblah.gif?12345', 0, strpos('blahblah.gif?12345', '.gif') + 4);
// returns blahblah.gif           ^ this is the key

And the full code: 

$str = 'original string';
$match = 'matching string';
$output = substr($str, 0, strpos($str, $match) + strlen($match));

See the both examples work here: http://ideone.com/Ge30rY

Upvotes: 1

CowOverlord
CowOverlord

Reputation: 13

// Set up string to search through
$haystack = "blahblah.gif?12345";

// Determine substring and length of it
$needle = ".gif";
$length = strlen($needle);

// Find position of last substring
$location = strrpos($haystack, $needle);

// Use location of last occurence + it's length to get new string
$newtext = substr($haystack, 0, $location+$length);

Upvotes: 0

raidenace
raidenace

Reputation: 12826

You could do this:

$str = "somecontent.gif?anddata";
$pattern = ".gif";
echo strstr($str,$pattern,true).$pattern;

Upvotes: 0

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