RE: Where am I? There MUST be a better way!

[Olive, Christopher M Mr USACHPPM]

so you have a string /MyApplication/Level1/Level2/index.cfm, and you want to
return /Level1/Level2/index.cfm?

use ListRest(/MyApplication/Level1/Level2/index.cfm, "/").

Chris Olive
DOHRS Website Administrator
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-----Original Message-----
From: Nick & Loretta Pioch [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, April 12, 2000 11:55 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Where am I? There MUST be a better way!


What is the best way to derive your subdirectory path?

For instance, the base of my application might be:
/MyApplication/index.cfm
where "MyApplication" is a mapping in CFAdministrator

Then I have some directory structure, such that one path might be:
/MyApplication/Level1/Level2/index.cfm

I want to know where I am (reconstruct only the subdirectory
path)...that is, I want to dynamically be able to generate:
/Level1/Level2

Currently, I'm doing this via lots of string manipulation, and it seems
much more painful than it ought to be.  What I currently have is:
    <cfset RootMapping ="/MyApplication/">
    <cfset UntrimmedCurrentDirectory =
GetDirectoryFromPath(#cgi.path_info#)>
    <cfset TrimStart = Len(UntrimmedCurrentDirectory)>
    <cfset CurrentDirectory = RemoveChars(UntrimmedCurrentDirectory,
TrimStart, "1")>    {note...this takes off an extraneous character that
GetDirectoyrFromPath puts on}
    <cfset SESSION.RelativeDirectory = RemoveChars(CurrentDirectory,
"1", len(RootMapping))>

And SESSION.RelativeDirectory is what I want.

Is there a better way?  There's GOT to be a better way!

And while I'm asking, could someone explain the <BASE> tag?  Would this
help me?

Thanks!
-- Loretta Pioch

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