How to extract only part of string in PHP?

Question

I have a following string and I want to extract image123.jpg.

..here_can_be_any_length \"and_here_any_length/image123.jpg\" and_here_also_any_length

Answer 1

You can use:

if(preg_match('#".*?\/(.*?)"#',$str,$matches)) {
   $filename = $matches[1];
}

Alternatively you can extract the entire path between the double quotes using preg_match and then extract the filename from the path using the function basename:

if(preg_match('#"(.*?)"#',$str,$matches)) {
    $path = $matches[1]; // extract the entire path.
    $filename =  basename ($path); // extract file name from path.
}