php - Replacing and removing parts of a string

Solution:

Remove the Last Slash first and then Replace the Last Slash with a Hash

<?php
$url = "http://www.foo.com/parentfoo/childfoo/";

$url = substr($url, 0, -1);

$add = "#";

$new =  preg_replace("~\/(?!.*\/)~", $add, $url);

echo $new;
?>
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Output

http://www.foo.com/parentfoo#childfoo
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Solution:

Here is a solution usingregex to find the last/.

<?php
$url =  'http://www.foo.com/parentfoo/childfoo/';
$output = preg_replace('!/([^/]+)/$!', "/#\\1", $url);
echo $output."\n";
?>
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Here's a little bit of explanation of how this works.

1. First, we delimit the regex using! instead of the usual/ because we are trying to match against/ inside the expression, which saves us certain amount of confusion and headache with escaping the/.

2. The expression/([^/]+)/$. We are matching a literal/, followed by some nonzero number of non-/ characters, followed by another literal/, followed by the end of string$. By tying the match to the end of string, we ensure that the two literal/ we have matched are exactly the last and second-to-last/ in the input.

3. The grouping parenthesis() captures the expression in between the two/, and the replacement expression\1 substitutes it back in during the replacement.

Solution:

First, find the last position:

$url = "http://www.foo.com/parentfoo/childfoo/";
$last = strrpos($url, '/');
if ($last === false) {
   return false;
}
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From there, find the 2nd last:

$next_to_last = strrpos($url, '/', $last - strlen($url) - 1);

$var1  = substr_replace($url,"",$last);
echo $var2  = substr_replace($var1, "#", $next_to_last, 1);   
//  http://www.foo.com/parentfoo#childfoo
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