Re: Strings

or yet another way... $newstr = substr($str,0,strrpos($str, "/")+1); on 12/11/00 7:05 PM, Brandon Orther at brandon@webintellects.com wrote: > > I have a variable that uses "/" to separate words, and I want to take the > last word of the string of and return everything before it. Here are some > examples: > /usr/test/because ==> /usr/test/ > > /this/is/a/test ==> /this/is/a/ > > is there an easy way to take everything past the last "/" off (the string > changes so there will be different numbers of "/" and I only want the last > word off.)?? > > Thank you, > > -------------------------------------------- > Brandon >