[RESOLVED] [2008] How to get folder names??

[tassa]

Hi, I'm trying to retrieve the names of X number of folders... I know that the names are strings, but i don't now how to get the names of, for example, 6 folders inside the "Group" folder.

Any ideas??

[dev_null84]

i assume you are willing to extract a folder from a full path which contains sub folders, am i right?

it can be "hard coded" in a way such as this one:

NOTE: in this example 'mypath' contains the path full of sub folders

dim Path_Arr as array                  ' this array will hold the folder names

Path_Arr = split(mypath , "\")    ' split into folders and store in Path_Arr

this will give you Path_Arr as an array filled up with the folder names given in the full path.

e.g.

if you input "c:\program files\microsoft\vb98"

you are getting in Path_Arr:

c: , program files , microsoft , vb98

if i want for an example to extract the folder 'microsoft' from the array and
output to a message box i'll write:

msgbox (Path_Arr(2) , vbOkOnly, "this folder")

of course if you only want folders from a full path that might contain a file name and/or a drive name, you should figure out how to customize this simple routine to extract only folder names and exclude the rest.


i'm pretty sure there are maybe better ways of doing this, but these are my 2cents.




im new here btw :]

had been programming under vb for over 6 years now, but only recently started upgrading my self into .NET

P.S: the code was written directly into the reply, it was not tested on vb - but should %100 work.

[tassa]

Thanks for your help! I think I can make it work with this! =DD

[dev_null84]

you're welcome

[gep13]

Hey,

Just to add to this as well, if you are not already using it, think about using the System.IO.Directory class, here is a link to it's members:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/libr..._members.aspx#

Gary

[dev_null84]

gep: never used this before- thanks

[gep13]

Hey,

That would be the main access point for doing any manipulation or indexing of the FileSystem, so you may want to start looking into it. The equivalent for a File would be System.IO.File, here are it's members:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/libr..._members.aspx#

I would definitely recommend looking into them, as they already provide some of the functionality that you require.

Another good one to look into is the System.IO.Path class, here:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/libr..._members.aspx#

Which includes methods such as GetExtension, GetDirectoryName etc.

Hope this helps!!

Gary

[tassa]

@Gary:

Thanks! I'll see how I can use this one!

Thanks for the input!!

[gep13]

No probs, happy to help