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FileSystem.GetParentPath(String) Method
Definition
- Namespace:
- Microsoft.VisualBasic.FileIO
- Assembly:
- Microsoft.VisualBasic.Core.dll
- Assembly:
- Microsoft.VisualBasic.dll
- Source:
- FileSystem.vb
- Source:
- FileSystem.vb
- Source:
- FileSystem.vb
- Source:
- FileSystem.vb
- Source:
- FileSystem.vb
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Returns the parent path of the provided path.
public:
static System::String ^ GetParentPath(System::String ^ path);public static string GetParentPath(string path);static member GetParentPath : string -> stringPublic Shared Function GetParentPath (path As String) As StringParameters
- path
- String
Path to be examined.
Returns
The parent path of the provided path.
Exceptions
Path does not have a parent path because it is a root path.
path is Nothing.
The path exceeds the system-defined maximum length.
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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