Newbie String Q

[Mike W]

I have :a friend: who needs to extract a filename from a variable
path_filename.
The path/filename combo is stored in a string and is different each time.

Something like

strFile = txtPathFile.text 'were the txtPathFile textbox is populated with
c:\windows\win.com

what is the most straight forward way to pull win.com out and place into
another string like strFile?

I really appreciate...I mean, my friend really appreciates the help. ;-)

Thanks,
m

 

[Guest]

Something like:

dim fi as new fileinfo(path_filename)\
fname = fi.name
fextension = fi.extension

 

[Herfried K. Wagner [MVP]]

I have :a friend: who needs to extract a filename from a variable
path_filename.
The path/filename combo is stored in a string and is different each time.

Something like

strFile = txtPathFile.text 'were the txtPathFile textbox is populated
with c:\windows\win.com

what is the most straight forward way to pull win.com out and place into
another string like strFile?

\\\
Imports System.IO
..
..
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Dim FileName As String = Path.GetFileName(Me.TextBoxPathFile.Text)
///

 

[Guest]

I have :a friend: who needs to extract a filename from a variable
path_filename.
The path/filename combo is stored in a string and is different each time.

Something like

strFile = txtPathFile.text 'were the txtPathFile textbox is populated with
c:\windows\win.com

what is the most straight forward way to pull win.com out and place into
another string like strFile?

I really appreciate...I mean, my friend really appreciates the help. ;-)

Thanks,
m

use indexof and substring

Dim BackSlash as Integer= FullPath.LastIndexOf("\")
FileName = FullPath.Substring((BackSlash + 1), FullPath.Length -
(BackSlash + 1))