[solved]strrchr of a '\' doesn't work!

[mickeymouse]

I am trying to find the last occurance of a backslash in a file path so that I can then pickup the file name.
This
$cntr=strrchr($myfilepath,"\");
is what I'm doing to find this backslash but it wont work. I get an error msg which refers to some place further in my code.

Parse error: syntax error, unexpected '=', expecting '}' in ...... on line 69

It works perfectly if I look for another kind of character, eg, a period.
It seems PHP can't handle the backslash.

Thanks

[Altrea]

The Backslash has a very special meaning in PHP String functions, because it can terminate other special characters.
If you want to search for the Backslash itself you have to double the backslash as needle to terminate the char itself:

Second thing: if you don't want that PHP resolve special characters (e.g. \t, \r, \n) and variablenames in String functions, don't use double quotes around the parameter, but single quotes.

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$cntr = strrchr($myfilepath,'\\');

More about Strings in PHP for further reading: http://php.net/manual/de/language.types.string.php

best wishes,
Altrea

[mickeymouse]

Thanks.
Works perfectly with "\\" & tks for the tip re single quotes.