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James Joshua Street
James Joshua Street

Reputation: 3409

how to make path strings in code file system independent?

I realized that my code has a lot of paths of the form C:\folder\pathtofile, and I was wondering what is typically done to allow code to be usable under different file systems?

I was hoping there was some environment property I could check in C# that would give me either forward slash or backslash in order to create new path strings.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 1067

Answers (1)

Scott Chamberlain
Scott Chamberlain

Reputation: 127543

Use the commands Path.Combine to combine strings together using the path separator or if you need more manual control Path.DirectorySeparatorChar will give you the platform specific character.

public static string GetConfigFilePath()
{
    //Returns "C:\Users\{Username}\AppData\Roaming"
    // or "C:/Users/{Username}/AppData/Roaming" depending on CLR running.
    var appData = Environment.GetFolderPath(Environment.SpecialFolder.ApplicationData);

    //Returns "C:\Users\{Username}\AppData\Roaming\MyProgramName\MyConfigFile.xml"
    // or "C:/Users/{Username}/AppData/Roaming/MyProgramName/MyConfigFile.xml"  depending on CLR running.
    var configPath = Path.Combine(appData, "MyProgramName", "MyConfigFile.xml");

    return configPath;
}

Upvotes: 1

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