Re: RFE to allow dirname($foo, 2)

On 22 July 2015 at 19:49, Sara Golemon <pollita@php.net> wrote: > On Wed, Jul 22, 2015 at 4:55 AM, Remi Collet <remi@fedoraproject.org> > wrote: > > See https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=70112 > > > I'm not inherently against it, but this really really sounds like a > job for a userspace function. > > function dirname_n($path, $n) { > while (($path !== '.') && $n--) $path = dirname($path); > return $path; > } <http://www.php.net/unsub.php> > > Indeed. What need is there to add a functionality to a relatively simple function like this one? What's the actual advantage that cannot be achieved in userland code? Greets, Marco Pivetta http://twitter.com/Ocramius http://ocramius.github.com/