Newbee Q: How to get the parent directory of a File

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Newbee Q: How to get the parent directory of a File

Nov 11th, 2006

I have the multiple level path of a filename, and I want to pull out just the immediate parent directory name of this file.

Example: Filename = "c:\temp\extra\test\myfile.txt"
How can I get "test" from this string ?

Thanks in advance
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Re: Newbee Q: How to get the parent directory of a File

Nov 12th, 2006

Answered it myself... learned how to use String.Split("\\")

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Re: Newbee Q: How to get the parent directory of a File

Nov 12th, 2006

Solved myself

What I was trying to do was dynamically build a menu item for each
langauge that was added to the application. Each language gets is own directory example: en-US, ar-QA, ...
I needed to make sure I had the resource dll in the directory, then determine its name by using the hosting directory. Pass that name to CulturInfo, and build the menu.
The Code snip below was used to populate a combobox, and a version of this used to create my menu items.

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string langcode = "";
string startpath = Application.StartupPath;
foreach (string d in Directory.GetDirectories(@startpath))
{
foreach (string f in Directory.GetFiles(d, "Foo.resources.dll"))
{
 
string[] pathparts = d.Split('\\');
int ipaths = pathparts.GetUpperBound(0);
langcode = pathparts[ipaths];
CultureInfo ci = new CultureInfo(langcode);
cbDefaultLangauge.Items.Add(ci.NativeName+ " ("+ci.EnglishName+"):"+langcode);
}
}