{"id":824,"date":"2008-04-27T22:09:21","date_gmt":"2008-04-27T20:09:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/planetozh.com\/blog\/?p=824"},"modified":"2008-04-28T00:39:44","modified_gmt":"2008-04-27T22:39:44","slug":"javascript-basename-and-dirname","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/planetozh.com\/blog\/2008\/04\/javascript-basename-and-dirname\/","title":{"rendered":"Javascript basename() and dirname()"},"content":{"rendered":"

For my next stuff I needed the Javascript equivalents of PHP functions basename() and dirname(). Nothing genius:<\/p>\n

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  1. function basename(path) {<\/div><\/li>\n
  2.     return path.replace(\/\\\\\/g,'\/').replace( \/.*\\\/\/, '' );<\/div><\/li>\n
  3. }<\/div><\/li>\n
  4.  <\/div><\/li>\n
  5. function dirname(path) {<\/div><\/li>\n
  6.     return path.replace(\/\\\\\/g,'\/').replace(\/\\\/[^\\\/]*$\/, '');;<\/div><\/li>\n
  7. }<\/div><\/li>\n<\/ol>\t<\/div>\n\n<\/div>\n\n

    It obviously supports paths like \/home\/ozh\/stuff.php<\/em>, http:\/\/site.com\/file.ext<\/em> or double backslashed Win32 paths such as C:\\\\dir\\\\document.txt<\/em>.<\/p>\n

    Edit:<\/strong> Mister Ze in comments points out to PHP.JS<\/a>, an ongoing project aiming to port PHP to Javascript. Some really neat stuff there.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    For my next stuff I needed the Javascript equivalents of PHP functions basename() and dirname(). Nothing genius: < View plain text > javascript function basename(path) {     return path.replace(\/\\\\\/g,'\/').replace( \/.*\\\/\/, " ); }   function dirname(path) {     return path.replace(\/\\\\\/g,'\/').replace(\/\\\/[^\\\/]*$\/, ");; } It obviously supports paths like \/home\/ozh\/stuff.php, http:\/\/site.com\/file.ext or double backslashed Win32 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[2,7,10],"class_list":["post-824","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-published","tag-code","tag-javascript","tag-php"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetozh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/824","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetozh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetozh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetozh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetozh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=824"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/planetozh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/824\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetozh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=824"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetozh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=824"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetozh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=824"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}