Get filename without path

[closet geek]

Hi,

 

I have a tabbed application, when a user opens a file to be displayed in a tab I naturally want the filename to appear in the tab.

 

Using this:

 

openFileDialog1.get_FileName()

 

Puts the whole path in the tab, making the tab very long e.g.

 

C:/path/to/file.txt

 

I just want:

 

file.txt

 

To be in the tab. How do I go about doing that?

 

Thanks.

[kentheprogger]

Hi,

 

I have a tabbed application, when a user opens a file to be displayed in a tab I naturally want the filename to appear in the tab.

 

Using this:

 

openFileDialog1.get_FileName()

 

Puts the whole path in the tab, making the tab very long e.g.

 

C:/path/to/file.txt

 

I just want:

 

file.txt

 

To be in the tab. How do I go about doing that?

 

Thanks.

 

dim stringBuffer() as String
stringBuffer = split("C:/path/to/file.txt", "/")

fileName = stringBuffer(ubound(stringBuffer))

[Cags]

dim path as string = "C:/path/to/file.txt"
System.IO.Path.GetFileName(path)

This way it will work regardless of whether the path uses "\"'s or "/"'s.

[kentheprogger]

Thanks, now I can stop messing around with that split statement for this. =p

[ehelin]

Old way...

 

Hi:

 

I to try to use the GetFileName methods like the other posters suggested...however, I sometimes do the following:

 

Private Sub Button1_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles Button1.Click

Dim Path As String

Dim Pos As Integer

 

Path = "C:\FilePath\ReallyLong\LotsofDirectories\Practice\ScratchPad\bin\testing.bmp"

Pos = Path.LastIndexOf("\")

Path = Path.Substring(Pos + 1, Path.Length - (Pos + 1))

 

'return file name

MsgBox(Path)

 

End Sub

[closet geek]

Thanks to everyone I've got it working now!