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Date: Wed, 22 Jul 2015 19:57:23 +0100
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To: Sara Golemon <pollita@php.net>
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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] RFE to allow dirname($foo, 2)
From: ocramius@gmail.com (Marco Pivetta)

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On 22 July 2015 at 19:49, Sara Golemon <pollita@php.net> wrote:

> On Wed, Jul 22, 2015 at 4:55 AM, Remi Collet <remi@fedoraproject.org>
> wrote:
> > See https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=70112
> >
> I'm not inherently against it, but this really really sounds like a
> job for a userspace function.
>
> function dirname_n($path, $n) {
>   while (($path !== '.') && $n--) $path = dirname($path);
>   return $path;
> } <http://www.php.net/unsub.php>
>
>
Indeed.
What need is there to add a functionality to a relatively simple function
like this one?
What's the actual advantage that cannot be achieved in userland code?

Greets,

Marco Pivetta

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