Just File Name

[Altman]

OK I could write a little method to do this but I was wondering if it
already existed. I've searched but cannot find it.
I have a file string, example "C:\my documents\mydoc.doc"
I want to call a function that will return just the file name "mydoc.doc"

 

[Herfried K. Wagner [MVP]]

OK I could write a little method to do this but I was
wondering if it already existed. I've searched but cannot find it.
I have a file string, example "C:\my documents\mydoc.doc"
I want to call a function that will return just the file name
"mydoc.doc"

'System.IO.Path.GetFileName'

 

[Imran Koradia]

Take a look at the Name Property of The FileInfo class (System.IO.FileInfo)

Dim Info As New System.IO.FileInfo("C:\my documents\mydoc.doc")
Console.WriteLine(Info.Name)

hope that helps...
Imran.

 

[Jay B. Harlow [MVP - Outlook]]

Altman,
Have you tried System.IO.Path.GetFileName?

Something like:

Dim path As String = "C:\my documents\mydoc.doc"
Dim name As String
name = System.IO.Path.GetFileName(path)

System.IO.Path has a number of other useful functions for getting parts of a
path, plus functions to manipulate paths, such as Path.ChangeExtension &
Path.Combine.

Hope this helps
Jay

 

[Imran Koradia]

You'll be better off using the System.IO.Path.GetFileName as Herfried and
Jay suggested (unless you need more functionality that the FileInfo class
provides).

(I always seem to forget this class :-S)

Imran.

 

[Guest]

Well done.

I JUST finished writing a method that would do exactly that... of course I
wasn't smart enough to see if it already existed

This would be funny if it weren't so embarrassing...

 

[Altman]

yeah I have done that many times. But I have learned my lesson and now I
always check before I make a method like that.