在php中解析一个字符串

Question

I am wondering how I can parse this string to get a certain name or string. What I need to parse is:

items/category/test.txt

To get it with out test.txt of course there will be different names so I can't just replace it.

I need the result to be:

items/category/ 

Also how can I parse it to get /category/ only?

Answer 1

Use PHP's pathinfo() function:

http://php.net/manual/en/function.pathinfo.php

$info = pathinfo('items/category/test.txt');
$dirPath = $info['dirname'];

// OR

$dirPath = pathinfo('items/category/test.txt', PATHINFO_DIRNAME);

// Output: items/category