Erich Musick top-posted (and I changed the format):
> Pedro Graca wrote:
>> Kim Jensen wrote:
>>
>>>Here I'd like the $val after the name= to be just the filename without
>>>the extention (all files in the directory are txt files)

^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

>> echo '<a href="test.php?name=', substr($val, -4), ">$val</a><br";
>
> This method, though, assumes that all extensions are exactly three
> characters long.

Yes, as the OP stated.

> What about extensions such as pl, py, h, among others?

In this case, it didn't seem necessary to make a generic function -- but
I agree that would have been a better option from the start :)

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