Regular Expressions 101

Community Patterns

File path parser

1

Regular Expression
PCRE2 (PHP >=7.3)

/
^(.*[\/\\])?([\w\-_]*)((?:\.\w+)*)?$
/
gm

Description

Parses a file path into 3 capture groups: 1: path (may be empty) 2: filename (required) 3: extension (may be empty)

Submitted by Perigoso - 9 months ago