---
title: deletingLastPathComponent
framework: foundation
role: symbol
role_heading: Instance Property
path: foundation/nsstring/deletinglastpathcomponent
---

# deletingLastPathComponent

A new string made by deleting the last path component from the receiver, along with any final path separator.

## Declaration

```swift
var deletingLastPathComponent: String { get }
```

## Discussion

Discussion A new string made by deleting the last path component from the receiver, along with any final path separator. If the receiver represents the root path it is returned unaltered. The following table illustrates the effect of this method on a variety of different paths:  |   |   |   |   |   |   |  Note that this method only works with file paths (not, for example, string representations of URLs).

## See Also

### Working with Paths

- [path(withComponents:)](foundation/nsstring/path(withcomponents:).md)
- [pathComponents](foundation/nsstring/pathcomponents.md)
- [completePath(into:caseSensitive:matchesInto:filterTypes:)](foundation/nsstring/completepath(into:casesensitive:matchesinto:filtertypes:).md)
- [fileSystemRepresentation](foundation/nsstring/filesystemrepresentation.md)
- [getFileSystemRepresentation(_:maxLength:)](foundation/nsstring/getfilesystemrepresentation(_:maxlength:).md)
- [isAbsolutePath](foundation/nsstring/isabsolutepath.md)
- [lastPathComponent](foundation/nsstring/lastpathcomponent.md)
- [pathExtension](foundation/nsstring/pathextension.md)
- [abbreviatingWithTildeInPath](foundation/nsstring/abbreviatingwithtildeinpath.md)
- [appendingPathComponent(_:)](foundation/nsstring/appendingpathcomponent(_:).md)
- [appendingPathExtension(_:)](foundation/nsstring/appendingpathextension(_:).md)
- [deletingPathExtension](foundation/nsstring/deletingpathextension.md)
- [expandingTildeInPath](foundation/nsstring/expandingtildeinpath.md)
- [resolvingSymlinksInPath](foundation/nsstring/resolvingsymlinksinpath.md)
- [standardizingPath](foundation/nsstring/standardizingpath.md)