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

$arrMain = array(
            '/www/htdocs/1/sites/lib/abcdedd',
            '/www/htdocs/1/sites/conf/xyz',
            '/www/htdocs/1/sites/conf/abc/def',
            '/www/htdocs/1/sites/htdocs/xyz',
            '/www/htdocs/1/sites/lib2/abcdedd'
);
function explodePath( $strPath ){ 
    return explode("/", $strPath);
}

function removePath( $strPath)
{
    global $strCommon;
    return str_replace( $strCommon, '', $strPath );
}
$arrExplodedPaths = array_map( 'explodePath', $arrMain ) ;

//Check for common and skip first 1
$strCommon = '';
for( $i=1; $i< count( $arrExplodedPaths[0] ); $i++)
{
    for( $j = 0; $j < count( $arrExplodedPaths); $j++ )
    {
        if( $arrExplodedPaths[0][ $i ] !== $arrExplodedPaths[ $j ][ $i ] )
        {
            break 2;
        } 
    }
    $strCommon .= '/'.$arrExplodedPaths[0][$i];
}
print_r( array_map( 'removePath', $arrMain ) );

This works fine... similar to mark baker but uses str_replace