VBScript in a Nutshell

Name

FileSystemObject.GetFileName Method

Syntax

                  oFileSysObj
                  .GetFileName(Path)

oFileSysObj

Use: Required

Data Subtype: FileSystemObject object

Any object variable returning a FileSystemObject object.

Path

Use: Required

Data Subtype: String

A path specifier.

Return Value

A Variant of subtype String.

Description

Returns the filename element of a given path.

Rules at a Glance

• If the filename can’t be determined from the given Path, a zero-length string (“”) is returned.

• Path can be a relative or absolute reference.

Programming Tips & Gotchas

• GetFileName doesn’t verify that a given file exists in Path.

• Path can be a network drive or share.

• Like all the Getx Name methods of the FileSystemObject object, the GetFileName method is more a string manipulation routine that an object-related routine. GetFileName has no built-in intelligence (and, in fact, seems to have even less intelligence than usual for this set of methods); it simply assumes that the last element of the string that is not part of a drive and path specifier is in fact a filename. For example, if Path is C:\Windows, the method returns the string “Windows”; if Path is C:\Windows\ (which unambiguously denotes a folder rather than a filename), the method still returns the string “Windows.”