From: Martin DeMello <martindemello@...>
Date: 2008-07-28T14:48:26+09:00
Subject: Re: head/tail split for path

On Sun, Jul 27, 2008 at 11:47 AM, Thomas Sawyer <transfire@gmail.com> wrote:
>> irb(main):002:0> components = fname.split('/')
>> => ["home", "foo", "bar"]
>> irb(main):003:0> [components.shift, components.join('/')]
>> => ["home", "foo/bar"]
>
> That's basically were I ended up too, but using David's File::Separator
> suggestion.

Don't forget the second argument to split - it'd be handy here.

first, rest = fname.split(File::Separator, 2)

though you'd probably have to thrown in an
  if fname.index(File::Separator) == 0 then fname = fname[1..-1]
first

martin