The System.IO.Path
Class
Often you need to work with pathnames, directory names, and filenames. The .NET Framework provides the System.IO.Path
class, offering shared members that allow manipulating pathnames. For example, you might want to extract the filename from a pathname. This is accomplished invoking the GetFileName
method as follows:
'Returns "TextFile.txt" Dim fileName As String = Path.GetFileName("C:\TextFile.txt")
The GetExtension
method returns instead only the file extension and is used as follows:
'Returns ".txt" Dim extension As String = Path.GetExtension("C:\TextFile.txt")
To ensure that a filename has an extension, you can also invoke the HasExtension
method that returns True
if the filename has one. There are situations in which ...
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