Getting the last 2 directories of a file path

Question

I have a file path of, for example /Users/Documents/New York/SoHo/abc.doc. Now I need to just retrieve /SoHo/abc.doc from this path.

I have gone through the following:

• stringByDeletingPathExtension -> used to delete the extension from the path.
• stringByDeletingLastPathComponent -> to delete the last part in the part.

However I didn't find any method to delete the first part and keep the last two parts of a path.

Answer 1

NSString has loads of path handling methods which it would be a shame not to use...

NSString* filePath = // something

NSArray* pathComponents = [filePath pathComponents];

if ([pathComponents count] > 2) {
   NSArray* lastTwoArray = [pathComponents subarrayWithRange:NSMakeRange([pathComponents count]-2,2)];
   NSString* lastTwoPath = [NSString pathWithComponents:lastTwoArray];
}