regex101: Remove file name from path

Pro

Group 1(.*\/)

.*any Unicode character (except for line terminators), repeated any number of times

\/the literal / (47₁₀ / 57₈ / 2F₁₆)

.*any Unicode character (except for line terminators), repeated any number of times

Global pattern flags

g modifier: global. Finds all matches instead of stopping after the first

m modifier: multiline. Causes ^ and $ to match the start and end of each line, not only the start and end of the string

25 tokens

Regular Expression

(.*\/).*

New

# Remove file name from path
# I just want to keep the directory the file is in

../data/detect_5wk.csv
../data/detect_5wk.nb.html

# This means that I will have to do a substitution in R
# stringr::str_replace("../data/detect_5wk.csv", "(.*\\/).*", "\\1")

Substitution

\1

# Remove file name from path
# I just want to keep the directory the file is in

../data/detect_5wk.csv
../data/detect_5wk.nb.html

# This means that I will have to do a substitution in R
# stringr::str_replace("../data/detect_5wk.csv", "(.*\\/).*", "\\1")