Truncate string

[ts10]

I have this string in my database:

/home/tena/web/tempTDLuploads/tdl.tdl

I need to truncate the file and only get the directory:

/home/tena/web/tempTDLuploads/

How can I always truncate everything past the "final" directory (no matter how far down the dir. structure goes)?

Thanks!

[drew010]

$string = "/home/tena/web/tempTDLuploads/tdl.tdl";
$pos = strrpos($string, "/");
$newString = substr($string, 0, $pos);

echo $newString; //prints "/home/tena/web/tempTDLuploads"

[ts10]

Perfect! Didn't know about that one - thanks much!

[LordShryku]

What about [man]dirname[/man]?

[ts10]

Is there a similar function to show only the file at the end of the dir?

Thanks!

[LordShryku]

[man]basename[/man]