parse_path()

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Applies to: ✅ Microsoft Fabric ✅ Azure Data Explorer ✅ Azure Monitor ✅ Microsoft Sentinel

Parses a file path string and returns a dynamic object that contains the following parts of the path:

• Scheme
• RootPath
• DirectoryPath
• DirectoryName
• Filename
• Extension
• AlternateDataStreamName

In addition to the simple paths with both types of slashes, the function supports paths with:

• Schemas. For example, "file://..."
• Shared paths. For example, "\shareddrive\users..."
• Long paths. For example, "\?\C:...""
• Alternate data streams. For example, "file1.exe:file2.exe"

Syntax

parse_path(path)

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Parameters

Name	Type	Required	Description
path	string	✔️	The file path.

Returns

An object of type dynamic that included the path components as listed above.

Example

Run the query

datatable(p:string) 
[
    @"C:\temp\file.txt",
    @"temp\file.txt",
    "file://C:/temp/file.txt:some.exe",
    @"\\shared\users\temp\file.txt.gz",
    "/usr/lib/temp/file.txt"
]
| extend path_parts = parse_path(p)

Output

p	path_parts
C:\temp\file.txt	{"Scheme":"","RootPath":"C:","DirectoryPath":"C:\temp","DirectoryName":"temp","Filename":"file.txt","Extension":"txt","AlternateDataStreamName":""}
temp\file.txt	{"Scheme":"","RootPath":"","DirectoryPath":"temp","DirectoryName":"temp","Filename":"file.txt","Extension":"txt","AlternateDataStreamName":""}
file://C:/temp/file.txt:some.exe	{"Scheme":"file","RootPath":"C:","DirectoryPath":"C:/temp","DirectoryName":"temp","Filename":"file.txt","Extension":"txt","AlternateDataStreamName":"some.exe"}
\shared\users\temp\file.txt.gz	{"Scheme":"","RootPath":"","DirectoryPath":"\\shared\users\temp","DirectoryName":"temp","Filename":"file.txt.gz","Extension":"gz","AlternateDataStreamName":""}
/usr/lib/temp/file.txt	{"Scheme":"","RootPath":"","DirectoryPath":"/usr/lib/temp","DirectoryName":"temp","Filename":"file.txt","Extension":"txt","AlternateDataStreamName":""}