Tetris-ing an array

Question

Consider the following array:

/www/htdocs/1/sites/lib/abcdedd
/www/htdocs/1/sites/conf/xyz
/www/htdocs/1/sites/conf/abc/         


        

Answer 1

$common = PHP_INT_MAX;
foreach ($a as $item) {
        $common = min($common, str_common($a[0], $item, $common));
}

$result = array();
foreach ($a as $item) {
        $result[] = substr($item, $common);
}
print_r($result);

function str_common($a, $b, $max)
{
        $pos = 0;
        $last_slash = 0;
        $len = min(strlen($a), strlen($b), $max + 1);
        while ($pos < $len) {
                if ($a{$pos} != $b{$pos}) return $last_slash;
                if ($a{$pos} == '/') $last_slash = $pos;
                $pos++;
        }
        return $last_slash;
}