Re: trim last folder in a path

Philip Olson wrote: 
Or simply check out the dirname() and basename() functions. Okay,
basename() is what you want but they both are useful :-)


Thanks but not what I needed this time. I needed the final folder in a long path as retrieved by getcwd() 'GET Current Working Directory'.

basename() returns the file name minus extension... which I can use elsewhere in this script as it happens!

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