Question: I have a path and I am trying to pop off everything after the last /, so 'folder' in this case, leaving the newpath as C://local/drive/folder/.

I tried to pop off the last / using pop(), but can't get the first part of the path to be the new path:

```
var path = C://local/drive/folder/folder
var newpath = path.split("/").pop();
var newpath = newpath[0]; //should be C://local/drive/folder/

```

How can I accomplish this?

Answer: 
If you want to get the first part of the array.

var firstWord = fullnamesaved.split(" ").shift();

This disregards all things after the space.
```
var foo = "C://local/drive/folder/folder";
foo.match(/(.+\/)[^\/]+$/);

```

would result in: `["C://local/drive/folder/folder", "C://local/drive/folder/"]`

though i would prefer user1689607's answer