Vista - Extracting drive, path filebasename or extension from complete filename?

Assume I have a full filename like

myfile="D:\aaa\bbb\ccc\ddd.txt"

How can I extract the individual parts (drive, path, filenbase and extension) from it?

How do I get the path and filenam of the current vbs script from inside this script?

Thomas

"Thomas Lebrecht" <t.lebrecht@xxxxxx> schriebSee

System.IO.Path.Get*

methods.

If you like a different answer, don't post to the VB.Net group
(m.p.dotnet.languages.vb)


Armin

"Thomas Lebrecht" <t.lebrecht@xxxxxx> wrote in message
news:49cf8e9c$0$31869$9b4e6d93@xxxxxx-online.net...In VBScript use the FileSystemObject. For example:
==========
Option Explicit

Dim strFile, objFSO, objFile, objFolder
Dim strFileName, intIndex

strFile = "D:\aaa\bbb\ccc\ddd.txt"

Set objFSO = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")
Set objFile = objFSO.GetFile(strFile)
Set objFolder = objFile.ParentFolder

Wscript.Echo "Name: " & objFile.Name
Wscript.Echo "ParentFolder: " & objFile.ParentFolder
Wscript.Echo "Path: " & objFile.Path
Wscript.Echo "Type: " & objFile.Type
Wscript.Echo "Parent Folder: " & objFolder.Name
Wscript.Echo "Drive: " & objFolder.Drive
Wscript.Echo "Parent Folder Path: " & objFolder.Path
strFileName = objFile.Name
intIndex = InStr(strFileName, ".")
If (intIndex > 0) Then
Wscript.Echo "File Extension: " & Mid(strFilename, intIndex + 1)
Else
Wscript.Echo "File Extension: "
End If
========
You have to parse for the extension, as above. You can also use WMI to
retrieve this information.

--
Richard Mueller
MVP Directory Services
Hilltop Lab - http://www.rlmueller.net
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On Mar 29, 6:07*pm, t.lebre...@xxxxxx (Thomas Lebrecht) wrote:In VB.NET (because it seems posted here):

Dim path As String = "D:\aaa\bbb\ccc\ddd.txt"

' To get Drive letter
System.IO.Path.GetPathRoot(path)

' To get whole path
System.IO.Path.GetFullPath(path)

' To get extension
System.IO.Path.GetExtension(path)

'...more on System.IO.Path as previously said.

HTH,

Onur Güzel

"Thomas Lebrecht" <t.lebrecht@xxxxxx> wrote in message
news:49cf8e9c$0$31869$9b4e6d93@xxxxxx-online.net...Microsoft has a free downloadable scripting help file, script56.chm; it is
installed by default with most recent OSs. This help file covers VBScript
and JScript and also talks about a few of the common Microsoft objects
typically used by scripters, such as the file system object (FSO). The FSO
does include tools (methods) to get at the "individual parts (drive, path,
filenbase and extension)". These methods parse a string representing an
imaginary path; they don't care whether the path actually exists or not.
The names of most (maybe all) of these path-parsing methods have the
following format: Get...Name, where ... indicates the name of the part of
the path that you want. In the Index tab of the help file, type the word
'get' to see a list of topics that start with the three characters 'get'.

-Paul Randall