String Replacing help

[mladost1]

Hey i gotta quick question. I have a variable that's and address of a file on my pc e.g.

$a="D:\My Documents\WoWScreenshots"

I want to go one directory up so i have to delete the second slash including everything to the right. Could you help me?

[weaponx]

$a="D:\My Documents\WoWScreenshots"
$parent = $a
 If StringLen($parent) > 3 Then $parent = FileGetLongName ($parent & "\..", 1)  
 ConsoleWrite($parent)

http://www.autoitscript.com/forum/index.ph...FileGetLongName

Edited June 11, 2008 by weaponx

[SmOke_N]

$a="D:\My Documents\WoWScreenshots"
$parent = $a
 If StringLen($parent) > 3 Then $parent = FileGetLongName ($parent & "\..", 1)  
 ConsoleWrite($parent)

http://www.autoitscript.com/forum/index.ph...FileGetLongName

At first I was like "Hey, cool a new way"... but then I ran it ... It no worky

@OP, _PathSplit can help you here, StringLeft + StringInStr can help you here as well as StringRegExpReplace

[weaponx]

At first I was like "Hey, cool a new way"... but then I ran it ... It no worky

@OP, _PathSplit can help you here, StringLeft + StringInStr can help you here as well as StringRegExpReplace

Works for me...?

[GEOSoft]

;
Func _Fldr_GetParent($sFldr)
   If StringRight($sFldr, 1) = "\" Then $sFldr = StringTrimRight($sFldr, 1)
   Return StringLeft($sFldr, StringInStr($sFldr, "\", 0, -1) -1)
EndFunc   ;<===> _Fldr_GetParent()
;

This will return the parent folder without the trailing backslash

[SmOke_N]

;
Func _Fldr_GetParent($sFldr)
   If StringRight($sFldr, 1) = "\" Then $sFldr = StringTrimRight($sFldr, 1)
   Return StringLeft($sFldr, StringInStr($sFldr, "\", 0, -1) -1)
EndFunc  ;<===> _Fldr_GetParent()
;

This will return the parent folder without the trailing backslash

Quick and dirty: StringRegExpReplace($sString, "\\+[\w-~\.]*\z", "")