How to get complete path?

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Jacques Oberto

Hi All,

I am using "folderBrowserDialog.SelectedPath" to obtain a user
selected path. Unfortunately the path is missing the trailing backslash.
Is there a way to obtain the complete path with "\" programmatically ?
Thanks,

Jacques
 
"Jacques Oberto" a écrit
Hi All,

I am using "folderBrowserDialog.SelectedPath" to obtain a user
selected path. Unfortunately the path is missing the trailing backslash.
Is there a way to obtain the complete path with "\" programmatically ?
Thanks,
Click to expand...

The really annoying part is that when the root directory is selected, the
trailing backslash is obtained:

c:\ versus c:\test

Jacques
 
Hi All,

I am using "folderBrowserDialog.SelectedPath" to obtain a user
selected path. Unfortunately the path is missing the trailing backslash.
Is there a way to obtain the complete path with "\" programmatically ?
Click to expand...

Why do you want the path in a specific format? If you are trying to use
that path to assemble a new path, just use the Path.Combine() method.
..NET will take care of putting any necessary directory separators in there
for you.

You can in fact also get the Path class to normalize the path, putting the
last separator on the string. But it's usually not actually necessary to
do so.

Pete
 
Peter Duniho said:
Why do you want the path in a specific format? If you are trying to use
that path to assemble a new path, just use the Path.Combine() method.
.NET will take care of putting any necessary directory separators in there
for you.

You can in fact also get the Path class to normalize the path, putting the
last separator on the string. But it's usually not actually necessary to
do so.
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Hi Peter,

I does not work.
Here's what I am trying to do. I would like to remove the @"\".

if (folderBrowserDialog1.ShowDialog() == DialogResult.OK)
{
listBox1.Items.Clear();
string[] fileList = Directory.GetFiles(folderBrowserDialog1.SelectedPath +
@"\", "*.txt");
foreach (string myFile in fileList)
{
listBox1.Items.Add(Path.GetFileName(myFile));
}
}


Jacques
 
"Peter Duniho" <[email protected]> a écrit dans le message deop.uzivi1n3vmc__BEGIN_MASK_n#[email protected]...




Why do you want the path in a specific format?  If you are trying to use
that path to assemble a new path, just use the Path.Combine() method.
.NET will take care of putting any necessary directory separators in there
for you.
Click to expand...
You can in fact also get the Path class to normalize the path, putting the
last separator on the string.  But it's usually not actually necessary to
do so.
Click to expand...

Hi Peter,

I does not work.
Here's what I am trying to do. I would like to remove the   @"\".

if (folderBrowserDialog1.ShowDialog() == DialogResult.OK)
{
  listBox1.Items.Clear();
  string[] fileList = Directory.GetFiles(folderBrowserDialog1.SelectedPath +
@"\", "*.txt");
  foreach (string myFile in fileList)
   {
      listBox1.Items.Add(Path.GetFileName(myFile));
   }

}

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Hello...

Say, did you ever just try and remove it?
Directory.GetFiles works just right in my tests without the trailing
slash.
I can't see your problem here.
 
I does not work.
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Hm.... Freud? ;-)
Here's what I am trying to do. I would like to remove the   @"\".
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Why?
Windows doesn't really care if you feed it "C:\" or "C:\\".
If you strip off the path anyway it does not matter.

Otherwise you might want to try

string mypath=Path.Combine(folderBrowserDialog1.SelectedPath, @"
").Trim();
string[] fileList = Directory.GetFiles( mypath, "*.txt");

HTH
 
[...]
Why do you want the path in a specific format? If you are trying to use
that path to assemble a new path, just use the Path.Combine() method.
.NET will take care of putting any necessary directory separators in
there
for you.
Click to expand...

[...]
I does not work.
Huh?

Here's what I am trying to do. I would like to remove the @"\".
Click to expand...

Then don't add it in the first place.
if (folderBrowserDialog1.ShowDialog() == DialogResult.OK)
{
listBox1.Items.Clear();
string[] fileList =
Directory.GetFiles(folderBrowserDialog1.SelectedPath, "*.txt");
Click to expand...

Pete
 
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