How to get path relative to a folder?

[kev51773]

Okay I have a problem with a script that I won't post here as its 804 lines long so far.

I have a function that recursively find all files ending .res, it works fine, however It finds the full path. I need to trim the path like in the following example

Script resides at = C:\Documents and Settings\username\Desktop\samplefolder

FullPath1 = C:\Documents and Settings\username\Desktop\samplefolder\data\projectname\setup\samplefile.res

FullPath2 = C:\Documents and Settings\username\Desktop\samplefolder\data\projectname\setup\test\samplefile2.res

FullPath3 = C:\Documents and Settings\username\Desktop\samplefolder\data\projectname\setup\test\test\samplefile3.res

The results I want are as follows

Result 1 = samplefile.res

Result 2 = test\samplefile.res

Result 3 = test\test\samplefile.res

Basically I need to find a path relative to (@ScriptDir & "\data\projectname\setup\")

Ive tried doing this using stringinstr or stringsplit and displaying the result is a msgbox for debugging but for some reason the script just hangs with the msgbox shown in the taskbar but not displayed on screen?

Any ideas? I could really do with finishing this script today or tommorow before I leave for xmas.

[martin]

Okay I have a problem with a script that I won't post here as its 804 lines long so far.

I have a function that recursively find all files ending .res, it works fine, however It finds the full path. I need to trim the path like in the following example

Script resides at = C:\Documents and Settings\username\Desktop\samplefolder

FullPath1 = C:\Documents and Settings\username\Desktop\samplefolder\data\projectname\setup\samplefile.res

FullPath2 = C:\Documents and Settings\username\Desktop\samplefolder\data\projectname\setup\test\samplefile2.res

FullPath3 = C:\Documents and Settings\username\Desktop\samplefolder\data\projectname\setup\test\test\samplefile3.res

The results I want are as follows

Result 1 = samplefile.res

Result 2 = test\samplefile.res

Result 3 = test\test\samplefile.res

Basically I need to find a path relative to (@ScriptDir & "\data\projectname\setup\")

Ive tried doing this using stringinstr or stringsplit and displaying the result is a msgbox for debugging but for some reason the script just hangs with the msgbox shown in the taskbar but not displayed on screen?

Any ideas? I could really do with finishing this script today or tommorow before I leave for xmas.

It should be quite simple. StringinStr should work so you must have done something wrong.

$RelativePath = StringRight(FullPath,StringLen(FullPath) -StringinStr(FullPath,@ScriptDir & "\data\projectname\setup\") - stringlen(@ScriptDir & "\data\projectname\setup\"))

or If the paths alway contain @ScriptDir & "\data\projectname\setup\" then you could say

$RelativePath = StringReplace(FullPath,@ScriptDir & "\data\projectname\setup\","")

But you need to be sure that

StringinStr(FullPath,@ScriptDir & "\data\projectname\setup\") > 0

[ChrisL]

StringReplace ($fullpath1,@scriptdir,"")

[kev51773]

Thanks guys, It seems I was going about it correctly in the first place.

I was just encountering a bug in msgbox that I thought pointed to a problem elsewhere. As soon as I switched to saving the data to an array rather than displaying it in a msgbox, the problem disappeared.