How can I check the extension of a file?
Assuming m is a string, you can use endswith: To be case-insensitive, and to eliminate a potentially large else-if chain:
Assuming m is a string, you can use endswith: To be case-insensitive, and to eliminate a potentially large else-if chain:
.S files are source code files written in assembly. Assembly is an extremely low-level form of programming. The files contain assembly instructions to the processor in sequential order and are typically compiled based on a selected architecture. Examples of such files are often seen in the linux kernel for specific architectures, e.g. x86, sparc, ARM, … Read more
No need to use string functions. You can use something that’s actually designed for what you want: pathinfo():
Newer Edit: Lots of things have changed since this question was initially posted – there’s a lot of really good information in wallacer’s revised answer as well as VisioN’s excellent breakdown Edit: Just because this is the accepted answer; wallacer’s answer is indeed much better: My old answer: Should do it. Edit: In response to PhiLho’s comment, use something like:
People from other scripting languages always think theirs is better because they have a built-in function to do that and not PHP (I am looking at Pythonistas right now :-)). In fact, it does exist, but few people know it. Meet pathinfo(): This is fast and built-in. pathinfo() can give you other information, such as canonical path, depending … Read more
10 Marco Pontello’s TrID is a great way to determine the type of any file. TrID is simple to use. Just run TrID and point it to the file to be analyzed. The file will be read and compared with the definitions in the database. Results are presented in order of highest probability. Just download … Read more
JPG and JPEG stand both for an image format proposed and supported by the Joint Photographic Experts Group. The two terms have the same meaning and are interchangeable. To read on, check out Difference between JPG and JPEG. The reason for the different file extensions dates back to the early versions of Windows. The original … Read more
Markdown is a plain-text file format. The extensions .md and .markdown are just text files written in Markdown syntax. If you have a Readme.md in your repo, GitHub will show the contents on the home page of your repo. Read the documentation: Standard Markdown GitHub Flavored Markdown You can edit the Readme.md file in GitHub … Read more