How to manipulate a file path

I have a file path obtained from user selection, however, I want to save the output of my function into a higher directory than the one selected by the user.

Is there a way to do that?

example:

user selects "C:\Program Files\User\Test"

and I want to save an output into "C:\Program Files\User\"

Answer 1

[Azzi Abdelmalek]

selected_folder='C:\Program Files\User\Test\'
idx=strfind(selected_folder,'\')
folder=selected_folder(1:idx(end-1))