Parse Data

[nightdesigns]

I have a command that has returned the directory in which a file is contained. What is the best way to parse part of that data into another field?

[NogDog]

I suspect we need some more info (at least, I do). What data needs to be parsed, and how? What "field" does it go into? Do you have any sample input data and what you'd like as the output?

[nightdesigns]

NogDog wrote:

I suspect we need some more info (at least, I do). What data needs to be parsed, and how? What "field" does it go into? Do you have any sample input data and what you'd like as the output?

Data is a directory structure, so in my case something like

directory_a/directory_b/directory_c/directory_d

I want to be able to take the "directory_d" and dump it into a variable and put "directory_c" into another variable.

[NogDog]

You could do $directories = explode('/', $path); (where $path is the directory string in your preceding post), then $directories would be an array with an element for each directory in the path.