ereg to get parent directory

[Anon]

Hello,

I have an ereg mental block. I am trying to get a parent directory. ie:

$dir = "/home/users/s/sean/public_html/images";

ereg to get

"home/users/s/sean/public_html";

Any suggestions would be great.

Sean

[Anon]

$x = "/home/clients/images/11adsf_1/sean";

$y = strrev($x);

preg_match("/\/.*$/",$y,$z);

$i = strrev($z[0]);

Is what I have done, but it is messy. Reverse the string remove the last bit, reverse it again....

[kparker]

Just match the trailing sequence of non-slashes:

   
   <?php
   $fullpath = "/down/the/garden/path";
   $parent = ereg_replace( "[^/]+$", '', $fullpath );

   echo "<pre>\n";
   echo "full path = $fullpath\n";
   echo " parent = $parent\n";
   echo "</pre>\n";
   ?>

Hmm, I just noticed that mine leaves the trailing / on the parent, whereas your request doesn't. If you want to omit it, just add /? to the front of the regex:

    "/?[^/]+$"

i.e match zero or one slashes followed by one or more non-slashes at the end of the path. The ? is there in case the pathname contains no parent directory information at all.