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dirname

dirname -- Return directory name component of path

Description

string dirname(string path);

Given a string containing a path to a file, this function will return the name of the directory.

On Windows, both slash (/) and backslash (\) are used as path separator character. In other environments, it is the forward slash (/).

Example 1. dirname() example

  1 
  2 $path = "/etc/passwd";
  3 $file = dirname($path); // $file is set to "/etc"
  4 

See also: basename()

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