FileSystem.GetParentPath(String) Method

Definition

Namespace:

Microsoft.VisualBasic.FileIO

Assembly:

Microsoft.VisualBasic.Core.dll

Source:

FileSystem.vb

Returns the parent path of the provided path.

public:
 static System::String ^ GetParentPath(System::String ^ path);

public static string GetParentPath (string path);

static member GetParentPath : string -> string

Public Shared Function GetParentPath (path As String) As String

Parameters

path

String

Path to be examined.

Returns

String

The parent path of the provided path.

Exceptions

ArgumentException

Path does not have a parent path because it is a root path.

ArgumentNullException

path is Nothing.

PathTooLongException

The path exceeds the system-defined maximum length.

NotSupportedException

A file or directory name in the path contains a colon (:) or is in an invalid format.

Examples

This example gets the parent path for C:\Backups\Tmp\Test.

Dim strPath = My.Computer.FileSystem.GetParentPath("C:\backups\tmp\test")
MsgBox(strPath)

Remarks

This is a string operation; the file system is not examined.