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regular expression help needed

hi

how can i take a string and delete everything up to and including the
first occurrence of a forward slash (/)? please help.

regards

marc

Jun 21 '07 #1
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On Jun 21, 10:14 am, monomaniac21 <mcyi2...@googlemail.comwrote:
hi

how can i take a string and delete everything up to and including the
first occurrence of a forward slash (/)? please help.

regards

marc
You don't need a regular expression to do that:

$str = 'some/string';
$str = substr($str, strpos($str, '/')+1);

Jun 21 '07 #2
..oO(monomaniac21)
>how can i take a string and delete everything up to and including the
first occurrence of a forward slash (/)? please help.
Try

$text = preg_replace('#^.*?/#', '', $text);

You could also do it with strpos() and substr_replace().

Micha
Jun 21 '07 #3

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