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VB.Net: Combining two strings to make a path
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for example you have a filename and a directory then do not just conactenate them but do Path.Combine.
- Imports System.IO
- Module Module1
- Sub Main()
- Dim _FileName1 As String = "filename.txt"
- Dim _FileName2 As String = "temp\Command.com"
- Dim _Path1 As String = "c:\"
- Dim _Path2 As String = "c:\temp"
- Console.WriteLine(Path.Combine(_Path1, _FileName1))
- Console.WriteLine(Path.Combine(_Path1, _FileName2))
- Console.WriteLine(Path.Combine(_Path2, _FileName1))
- Console.WriteLine(Path.Combine(_Path2, _FileName2))
- Console.ReadLine()
- End Sub
- End Module
this will give you the following result
c:\filename.txt
c:\temp\command.com
c:\temp\filename.txt
c:\temp\temp\command.com
as you can see it will add the \ when neede and it will check if it is a valid path too before combining. It will not chech if the file exists (but that is easy enough).
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