Read the file name from String

[georgepatotk]

I have the a file with the full path as shown below:

c:/the directory/pic.jpg

 

any function for me to use as to pick up only the file name?

the result I want from the above mentioned path is "pic.jpg"

[georgepatotk]

I found the solution

 

Dim theName as string

theName = "c:/the directory/pic.jpg"

theName = theName.Substring(theName.LastIndexOf("\") + 1)

[techmanbd]

dim strPath as string = "c:\directory\pic.jpg"

dim strFile as string

dim intPos as integer

 

intPos = strPath.lastindexof("\")

 

strFile = strPath.Substring(intPos + 1)

[techmanbd]

You must have found the solution as I was writing

[mutant]

The GetFileName method of the IO.Path class will do what you want. It is way more elegant then trying to extract it yourself.

Dim filename As String = System.IO.Path.GetFileName("path")