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c#winforms
Adrao
Adrao

Reputation: 510

Get a file's root path

I have this code to get all the files from a folder and its sub-directories.

FolderBrowserDialog fb = new FolderBrowserDialog();
            if (fb.ShowDialog() == DialogResult.OK)
            {
                foreach (string folder in System.IO.Directory.GetFiles(fb.SelectedPath, "*.*", System.IO.SearchOption.AllDirectories))
                    listBox1.Items.Add(Path.GetFullPath(folder));
            }

but it returns the file paths like this: C:\Users\RANDOM\Desktop\TheSelectedFolder\SubFolder1\Subfolder2\file.txt How can i make it return only the name of the Selected Folder plus the path of the sub-directories? without the drive letter, username, etc.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 1368

Answers (2)

Adrian
Adrian

Reputation: 2875

If you use

System.IO.Path.GetDirectoryName(filePath)

where 

filePath = "C:\Users\RANDOM\Desktop\TheSelectedFolder\SubFolder1\Subfolder2\file.txt"

it should return 

`"C:\Users\RANDOM\Desktop\TheSelectedFolder\SubFolder1\Subfolder2"`

From this you can then use a regular expression like @"^[a-zA-Z]\:\Users\[^]+\" to cut out the bit of the path you don't want.

Edit: now that my brain is in hear, I can see that the answer I'd give has already been given.

Path.Combine(Path.GetDirectoryName(selectedFolder),filePath.Replace(selectedFolder,String.Empty))

Upvotes: 0

Sam Axe
Sam Axe

Reputation: 33738

silliness = Path.Combine( Path.GetDirectoryName(fb.SelectedPath),
                          folder.Replace(fb.SelectedPath, String.Empty)
                         )

Upvotes: 1

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