Given the full path to a file, how do I get just the path without the filename?

Question

Suppose I have a path in a string called \'/home/user/directory/HelloWorld.txt\'. I would like to remove the HelloWorld.txt, and end up with \'/home/user/directory\'. What rege

Answer 1

split on "/", remove last element and join them back.

$path='/home/user/directory/HelloWorld.txt';
@s = split /\// ,$path;
pop(@s);
print join("/",@s);