Obtain name of selected folder and subfolders

[Noemi]

Hi

I am really stuck and have gone around in ciricles.

I have code which once a button is clicked will request the user to select a
folder.

What I cannot work out is how to add the path to a string but only from the
selected folder and any sub-folders after the selected folder.

I dont want to see any of the folders which are above the selected folder.

Thanks
Noemi

 

[Daniel Pineault]

I'm not sure if I'm getting this right but, assuming you know the base
directory and your simply trying to extract the subdirectory(ies) selection,
something like the following should work

path = "c:\temp\subfolder1\subfolder2\"
path2 = "c:\temp\subfolder1\subfolder2\subfolder3\subfolder4\"
DeltaPath = right(path2,len(path2)-len(path))

If this isn't what you're after, can you re-explain please.

 

[Noemi]

Thanks Daniel

I am trying to understand what you have suggested.

So you are saying that if I use the folder user has selected, which we come
out as path = "C:\temp\subfolder1\subfolder2\"(with subfolder 2 being the
selected folder in this case.

and path2 would be showing all folders including the files

while deltapath would show as subfolder2\subfolder3\subfolder4\test.tif

because this is what I need but I am not sue if I have read it correct.

Thanks
Noemi

 

[Daniel Pineault]

Yes.

Basically asumming your base folder is "c:\database\images\" (I called this
path)

and your user is allowed to select a file and selects
"c:\database\images\productx\front.tif" (I called this path2)

then the DeltaPath would be "productx\front.tif"

and you can simply get this by substracting the 2 string lengths.

right(path2, len(path2)-len(path1))

this say return me the (37-19=) 18 rightmost characters of path2, therefore
"productx\front.tif"
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Hope this helps,

Daniel Pineault
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