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I needed to walk a string path for event bubbling, and wondered what the best way is to "pop off" the last path part of a string.

Preparation code

 
<script>
  Benchmark.prototype.setup = function() {
    var path = 'dir1/dir2/dirLongName/even_longer_name_here_almost_unnecessarily_long/things/stuff/file name eventually.jpg';
    var separator = '/';
    var unimportant = 0;
    
    function doSomething(partialPath) {
        // doesn't really matter what we do here, just some basic processing on the string path
        unimportant += partialPath.length;
    }
  };
</script>

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var apath = path.split(separator);
while (apath.length) {
    doSomething(path);
    apath.pop();
    path = apath.join(separator);
}

var i;
while (path.length) {
    doSomething(path);
    i = path.lastIndexOf(separator);
    i = i < 0 ? 0 : i;
    path = path.substr(0, i);
}

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