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Abhijeet J.
Abhijeet J.

Reputation: 53

Javascript : How to get root directory from a path

I have a file path for eg. "/abc/xyz/123/file.txt". How can I get the root directory ie."abc" from this path. I tried the following code:

var path = "/abc/xyz/123/file.txt";
var rootDir = path.split("/")[1];

This works for the above example. But the path can also be in below formats:

1. "abc/xyz/123/file.txt"
2. "\abc\xyz\123\file.txt"(backslash instead of forward slash path separator)

How to do this covering all the scenarios? Can this be done using regex?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 2405

Answers (1)

gurvinder372
gurvinder372

Reputation: 68383

try this match(/[^/\\]+/)

var reg = /[^/\\]+/

console.log( "abc/xyz/123/file.txt".match(reg) )
console.log( "/abc/xyz/123/file.txt".match(reg) )
console.log( "\\abc\\xyz\\123\\file.txt".match(reg) )

Upvotes: 3

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