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    [VBA] Location of the database

    I'm writing code to open .chm files from VBA, but I need to know the location of the database to be able to open the file, which is in the same directory. Is there any way to find this out?
    VB has App.Path, but VBA doesn't..
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    This is for Access.
    Code:
    Dim oCnn As ADODB.Connection
    Dim oRs As ADODB.Recordset
    Dim sPathFull As String
    
    Set oRs = New ADODB.Recordset
    Set oCnn = New ADODB.Connection
        
    sPathFull = Application.CurrentDb.Properties("Name").Value
        
    If oCnn.State = adStateClosed Then
        oCnn.ConnectionString = "Provider=Microsoft.Jet.OLEDB.4.0;Data Source=" & sPathFull & ";Persist Security Info=False"
        oCnn.Open
    End If
    
    oRs.Open sSQL, oCnn, adOpenForwardOnly, adLockReadOnly, adCmdText
    Then use InstrRev to strip off the database name and the rest will be the database folder path.
    This is part of some code I use to do an export of a query to a text file.
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