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Getting Main directory Name

Kevin Davis

HI all.

I have several folders that have folders inside of them. I'm trying to get just the top level folder name, such as,

I have:
D:\Music\Rock\Scorpions
D:\Music\Rock\Scorpions\World Wide Live

I just want to return "Music" for both lines. I know how to get a list of all the directories for a certain drive, but when I scan directories for all files, I just want to return the top level directory name.

Thanks for your help!

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Vulpes14y ago
Perhaps the easiest way to do it is like this:

Dim path1 As String = "D:\Music\Rock\Scorpions"
Dim path2 As String = "D:\Music\Rock\Scorpions\World Wide Live"
Dim topLeve11 As String = path1.Split("\"c)(1)
MessageBox.Show(topLeve11) 'Music
Dim topLeve12 As String = path2.Split("\"c)(1)
MessageBox.Show(topLeve12) 'Music

This splits the path using the '\' as the separator and then selects the second string in the resulting array, which has an index of 1.