Lost in String Manipulation

[bjwade62]

I'm trying to get the portion of a folder name that comes after the last "\". For instance.

k:\cortland\wade = wade
k:\cortland\wade\arch = arch

I've been trying to use a combination of Split and LastIndexOf but I'm not having any luck. Can anyone steer me in the right direction?

 

[Cags]

' if path is a string object containing the full path then
path.Substring(path.LastIndexOf("\") + 1)

 

[snarfblam]

There is already a function that exists specifically for this purpose (and is independant of environment, meaning it will work on a platform where the path separator character is / instead of \).

Dim FolderPath As String = "C:\\Documents And Settings\\MooCow"
Dim SubFolderName As String = System.IO.Path.GetFileName(FolderPath)

'Shows "MooCow"
MessageBox.Show(SubFolderName)

I know the function's name is GetFileName, but syntactically a folder path and an extensionless file name are the same, with one exception. A folder path can be followed by a trailing backslash, which should be taken into consideration.

 

[Nate Bross]

Yes, because in VB

dim FilePathOne as String = "C:\\MyDocuments\\Afolder\\somefile.txt"
dim FilePathTwo as String = "C:/MyDocuments\\Afolder/somefile.txt"

FilePathOne = FilePathTwo 'at least as far as System.IO is concerned