Anybody know how to do this?

[ob1cnobe]

I'm trying to write a VB program that will print out the drive or device name of a file, given the full path name. Assuming the device name is preceded by a colon and may be more than one character long. The user must know if there is no device name present.

[Arc]

umm not sure i follow you but something like this?

MsgBox Left("C:\Windows\Desktop\MyFile.txt", 3)

[Slaine]

Arc's example will only work the device name is only 1 char but :

...and may be more than one character long...

So you could use

split("C:\Windows\Desktop\MyFile.txt",":")(0)