Find and remove a trailing slash from a path - brain fade time

[Mike Kear]

I'm having a brain fade .... i know i've done this before but can't
remember how I did it ..

I am programmatically getting the path to the root of the site, and I
want to make sure that if the last character in the path is a slash
(\) that it's removed. That's cos when i combine the root path
vaiable with other variables i want to make sure there is only a
single \ anywhere.

I have this in my application.cfm:

<cfset temprootpath = GetDirectoryFromPath(GetCurrentTemplatePath()) />
which gives me something like

c:\inetpub\wwwroot\

so how to remove the trailing slash?

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Cheers
Mike Kear
Windsor, NSW, Australia
Adobe Certified Advanced ColdFusion Developer
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[Andrew Scott]

Mike

<cfif string.endsWith('\')>
<cfset string = left(string, Len(string) - 1 ) />
</cfif>

Andrew Scott
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Mobile: 0404 998 273

[Scott Thornton]

endsWidth() ???

That is a fucntion that can't be found in my CF MX 6.1 manual.

>>> andrew...@aegeon.com.au 06/12/2006 4:24 pm >>>

[Bruce Trevarthen (B2 Limited)]

Arh, CF6

Use this instead...

<cfif right(string,1) is '/'>

<cfset string = left(string, Len(string) - 1 ) />
</cfif>

Bruce

[Andrew Scott]

Scott,

And nor will you either, if you think about it CF sees that as a string and
Java has the method endsWith() so you can leverage of this little trick with
great uses:-)

[Joel Cass]

What? there's a manual?

<cfif right(string, 1) EQ "/">
....
</cfif>

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[Mike Kear]

Thats not how i did it before, but thats FAR more elegant. Thanks!

I'm assuming endsWith() is a java string function is it? Where can
i find a list of all these functions? I ought to know more about
them.

Cheers
Mike Kear
Windsor, NSW, Australia
Adobe Certified Advanced ColdFusion Developer
AFP Webworks
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[Andrew Scott]

Yes Mike it is, the best place is java.sun.com and look at the api, or you
could always go looking into the class source files themselves?

[Robin Hilliard]

path = reReplace(path,"/$","");

Robin

[Mike Kear]

AH! That's the solution I was trying to recall. Thanks Robin.

But I do think that Andrew's java answer was really cool.

Cheers
Mike Kear
Windsor, NSW, Australia
Adobe Certified Advanced ColdFusion Developer
AFP Webworks
http://afpwebworks.com
ColdFusion, PHP, ASP, ASP.NET hosting from AUD$15/month

[grant]

if we were on expertsexchange robin would get the points.

[Robin Hilliard]

On 06/12/2006, at 8:45 PM, Mike Kear wrote:
> But I do think that Andrew's java answer was really cool.

I agree. There are lots of interesting undocumented methods hanging
around in CFML - For instance application.getApplicationSettings()
that I blogged about back in 2005:

http://www.rocketboots.com.au/blog/index.cfm?
mode=entry&entry=8A1C48F5-E081-51EF-A7AF8C312529DABA

Here's a script ("Java Eye for the CF Guy"?) that lists some of the
methods hidden away in common-garden CFML things:

<cfapplication name="test" sessionmanagement="true">
<cfscript>
function hiddenMethods(class) {
writeOutput("<h1>Class: " & class.toString() & "</h1><br>");
aMethods = class.getMethods();
for (i = arrayLen(aMethods); i gt 0; i = i - 1)
writeOutput(aMethods[i].toString() & "<br>");
}

// String
s = "hello";
hiddenMethods(s.getClass());

// Array
hiddenMethods(arrayNew(1).getClass());

// XML
hiddenMethods(xmlNew().getClass());

// Struct
hiddenMethods(structNew().getClass());

// Application
hiddenMethods(application.getClass());

// Session
hiddenMethods(session.getClass());

// Template
hiddenMethods(getClass());

// Component
function getClassFromInsideComponent() {
return getClass();
}
instance = createObject("component","WEB-INF.cftags.component");
instance.getClassFromInsideComponent = getClassFromInsideComponent;
hiddenMethods(instance.getClassFromInsideComponent());

</cfscript>

As always, use undocumented methods at your own risk :-)

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