splitting strings

[sirkrunch]

I have this
$string /path/to/a/dir/and/file.txt

i want to split it, have one variable with the full path but no file
and another with just the fille name, how do i go about that??

[GodOfSuicide]

i'm not that good in tcl, but i can tell you what logical way you have to go:

cos in the filename ther cant be a "/" character you have to find the position of the last "/" in the string.

Then copy all from first character in the string to the position you just found into a variable. Do the same from the position you found + 1 to the last character. Then you have split it up.

/path/to/a/dir/and/file.txt
______________|
find this one

/path/to/a/dir/and/file.txt
|---------------------|
copy from start till last "/"

/path/to/a/dir/and/file.txt
_______________|------|
copy from last "/" + 1 to end.

now somebody who knows TCL got to write the code, but i hope my theoretical method can help.

(board unformated my " "'s, so i just made "_"'s)

[caesar]

set line "/path/to/a/dir/and/file.txt"
set result [string trim $line "file.txt"]

result: /path/to/a/dir/and/

[Papillon]

or:

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set line "/path/to/a/dir/and/file.txt" 
set dir [lindex [split $line /] end]  #will return "file.txt"
set file [join [lrange [split $line /] 0 end-1] /]  #will return "/path/to/a/dir/and"

this will give you both dir and filename, even if you don't know the filename

btw.. love your "graphical" demonstration GodOfSuicide

[ppslim]

Tcl has a lovely set of built in commands, for operating on filenames.

What makes it even better, it works on ALL OS's. Meanign there are nor incompatabilities between scripts.

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set fullfile "/my/file/is/here/and/called/ppslim.doc"
set dirname [file dirname $fullfile]
set filename [file tail $fullfile]

[caesar]

Haha, now you have 3 types to choose from

[stdragon]

Make it four!

set fullfile "/path/to/file.ext"
regexp {(^.*)/([^/]*$)} $fullfile match dirname filename

ppslim's way is best though

[GodOfSuicide]

btw.. love your "graphical" demonstration GodOfSuicide

that was the way i do it in delphi....so i tried to symbolize my way