How to get path from multiple files ?

[madasraka]

Hey guys! ive been struggling with strings (always do) trying to figure out how to get PATH only.

Return value is

C:\Users\Administrator\Desktop\System|DN3D_pickups.u|Dweather.u|Dweather.ucl

So how do i get C:\Users\Administrator\Desktop\System out of all that knowing that path can be different.

I tried to do count and then trim, but if path is not the same then its not gonna work because count will be different.

I know i need a For #i = 1 to $returnvalue[0]

and something else but not sure what i need to search the string for "|" and once it found do the count of characters so i would know how much to trim.

or something like that

Thanks in advance

[Yoriz]

Here is one way.

$sString = "C:\Users\Administrator\Desktop\System|DN3D_pickups.u|Dweather.u|Dweather.ucl"
$sPathOnly = StringLeft($sString, StringInStr($sString, "\", 0, -1)-1)
ConsoleWrite($sPathOnly & @CR)

[AndyG]

Hi,

you could try the

_pathsplit()

An example is, where all other examples are....in the helpfile  Edited May 31, 2010 by AndyG

[madasraka]

Here is one way.

$sString = "C:\Users\Administrator\Desktop\System|DN3D_pickups.u|Dweather.u|Dweather.ucl"
$sPathOnly = StringLeft($sString, StringInStr($sString, "\", 0, -1)-1)
ConsoleWrite($sPathOnly & @CR)

Man this one is awesome

Simple and works magic

Thank you very much !!!!

[sahsanu]

Following the Yoriz example but using StringRegExpReplace:

$sString = "C:\Users\Administrator\Desktop\System|DN3D_pickups.u|Dweather.u|Dweather.ucl"
$sPathOnly = StringRegExpReplace($sString, "(?=.*)\|.*","$1")
ConsoleWrite($sPathOnly & @CR)

Have a nice day

sahsanu

[99ojo]

Hi,

if you need path and filenames for further coding, i'd use:

$sString = "C:\Users\Administrator\Desktop\System|DN3D_pickups.u|Dweather.u|Dweather.ucl"
$artemp = StringSplit ($string, "|")
MsgBox (0,"", "Path: " & $artemp [1])
For $i = 2 To $artemp [0]
    MsgBox (0,"", "File: " & $artemp [$i] & @CRLF & "Full Path: " & $artemp [1] & "\" & $artemp [$i])
Next

;-))

Stefan

Edited May 31, 2010 by 99ojo