FileSystemProxy.GetParentPath(String) Method

Reference

Definition

Namespace:: Microsoft.VisualBasic.MyServices

Assembly:: Microsoft.VisualBasic.dll

Assembly:: Microsoft.VisualBasic.Forms.dll

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Returns the parent path of the provided path.

public:
 System::String ^ GetParentPath(System::String ^ path);

public string GetParentPath (string path);

member this.GetParentPath : string -> string

Public Function GetParentPath (path As String) As String

Parameters

path: String

Path to be examined.

Returns

String

The parent path of the provided path.

Exceptions

ArgumentException

Path does not have a parent path because it is a root path.

ArgumentNullException

path is Nothing.

PathTooLongException

The path exceeds the system-defined maximum length.

NotSupportedException

A file or directory name in the path contains a colon (:) or is in an invalid format.

Examples

This example gets the parent path for C:\Backups\Tmp\Test.

Dim strPath = My.Computer.FileSystem.GetParentPath("C:\backups\tmp\test")
MsgBox(strPath)

Remarks

This is a string operation; the file system is not examined.

Applies to

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