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Posted: **Tue Apr 22, 2014 9:03 pm**

I want to write a function to get the path of a filename in a LÖVE program, and am finding it difficult. getDir('/usr/local/bin/sl') should return '/usr/local/bin'. I essentially want to remove the last item in a filename. In python I would just do:

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def getDir(sPath):
  dir = '/'.join(sPath.split('/')[:-1])
  return dir

but as far as I know lua does not have the split or the join functions.

Posted: **Tue Apr 22, 2014 9:13 pm**

Something like this:

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function getDir(filepath)
    return filepath:match("(.+)/") or ""
end

It will return a string containing everything up to the last '/' in the filepath, or an empty string if there isn't any '/'.

Posted: **Tue Apr 22, 2014 9:28 pm**

worked perfectly, thanks!

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