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: 
Just replace the last statement to be like that:

```
var path = C://local/drive/folder/folder
path.split("/").pop(); // Discard the poped element.
var newpath = path.join("/"); // It will be C://local/drive/folder

```

**A note about `Array.pop`**: Each time you call the `pop` method it will *return* the last element and also it will *remove it from the array*.
```
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