remove last word in label split by \

Ok i have a string where i want to remove the last word split by \

for example:

string name ="kak\kdk\dd\ddew\cxz\"

now i want to remove the last word so that i get a new value for name as

name= &quo开发者_如何学Pythont;kak\kdk\dd\ddew\"

is there an easy way to do this

thanks

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How do you get this string in the first place? I assume you know that '' is the escape character in C#. However, you should get far by using

name = name.TrimEnd('\\').Remove(name.LastIndexOf('\\') + 1);

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string result = string.Join("\\",
            "kak\\kdk\\dd\\ddew\\cxz\\"
            .Split(new[] { '\\' }, StringSplitOptions.RemoveEmptyEntries)
            .Reverse()
            .Skip(1)
            .Reverse()
            .ToArray()) + "\\";

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Here's a non-regex manner of doing it.

string newstring = name.SubString(0, name.SubString(0, name.length - 1).LastIndexOf('\\'));

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This regex replacement should do the trick:

name = Regex.Replace(name, @"\\[a-z]*\\$", "\\");

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Try this:

const string separator = "\\";
string name = @"kak\kdk\dd\ddew\cxz\";
string[] names = name.Split(separator.ToCharArray(), 
    StringSplitOptions.RemoveEmptyEntries);
string result = String.Join(separator, names, 0, names.Length - 1) + separator;

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EDIT:I just noticed that name.Substring(0,x) is equivalent to name.Remove(x), so I've changed my answer to reflect that.

In a single line:

name = name = name.Remove(name.Remove(name.Length - 1).LastIndexOf('\\') + 1);

If you want to understand it, here's how it might be written out (overly) verbosely:

string nameWithoutLastSlash = name.Remove(name.Length - 1);
int positionOfNewLastSlash = nameWithoutLastSlash.LastIndexOf('\\') + 1;
string desiredSubstringOfName = name.Remove(positionOfNewLastSlash);
name = desiredSubstringOfName;

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My Solution

 public static string RemoveLastWords(this string input, int numberOfLastWordsToBeRemoved, char delimitter)
        {
            string[] words = input.Split(new[] { delimitter });
            words = words.Reverse().ToArray();
            words = words.Skip(numberOfLastWordsToBeRemoved).ToArray();
            words = words.Reverse().ToArray();
            string output = String.Join(delimitter.ToString(), words);
            return output;
        }

Function call

RemoveLastWords("kak\kdk\dd\ddew\cxz\", 1, '\')

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string name ="kak\kdk\dd\ddew\cxz\"
string newstr = name.TrimEnd(@"\")

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if you working with paths:

  string name = @"kak\kdk\dd\ddew\cxz\"; 
  Path.GetDirectoryName(name.TrimEnd('\\'));
  //ouput: kak\kdk\dd\ddew

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string[] temp = name.Split('\\');
string last = "\\" + temp.Last();
string target = name.Replace(last, "");

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For Linq-lovers: With later C# versions you can use SkipLast together with Split and string.Join:

var input = @"kak\kdk\dd\ddew\cxz\";
string result = string.Join( @"\", input
                        .Split( @"\", StringSplitOptions.RemoveEmptyEntries )
                        .SkipLast( 1 ))
                + @"\";