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: 
Use `.slice()` instead of `pop()`

```
var newpath = path.split("/").slice(0, -1).join("/");

```

---

If you also need the last part, then just use `.pop()`, but first store the Array in a separate variable.

```
var parts = path.split("/");

var last = parts.pop();
var first = parts.join("/");

```

Now `last` has the last part, and `first` has everything before the last part.

---

Another solution is to use `.lastIndexOf()` on the string.

```
var idx = path.lastIndexOf("/");

var first = path.slice(0, idx);
var last = path.slice(idx + 1);

```
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*.