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From: barn@convex.com (Tim Barney)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl
Subject: path truncation quest
Summary: How to take last component off path?
Keywords: path,truncation
Message-ID: <1991Mar21.010547.13331@convex.com>
Date: 21 Mar 91 01:05:47 GMT
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Any suggestions on how, given the argument "/directory/sub/100.host.0"
that one could take off the "100.host.0" component, leaving
"/directory/sub" ?

I've thought of splitting it and just taking the first 2 components,
but there could be any number of directory levels.

tim_