Left, Right, Mid?

[Guest]

What are the equivalant to left, right, etc. in C#. How can I extract
strings from a string without them? For instance, I have a string like so:

"c:\thedir\subf older\maybeanot her\__TFMF_lrni ez55ufziugv2nnz nzeyt_b9c9c1d5-230a-43e1-b38a-7a44_0___Select ed.eps"

I need to return just the directory name "c:\thedir\subf older\maybeanot her\"
which may be different, and the file name minus the extension and the
"___Selecte d" portion, so return
"__TFMF_lrniez5 5ufziugv2nnznze yt_b9c9c1d5-230a-43e1-b38a-7a44_0". I could
do this in VB.NET as well as TSQL but how in C#? Thank you.

[DrewCE]

Re: Left, Right, Mid?

When dealing with path names use the System.IO.Path object.

So to get the directory name of some path, like the one in your example,
just do...

string dir = System.IO.Path. GetDirectoryNam e(somePath);

File name minus extension...

string fn = System.IO.Path. GetFileNameWith outExtension(so mePath);

Check out the other methods in Path. They are very useful in dealing with
paths.

But, to answer your question as to the equivalent of Left, Right, and
Mid...see string.SubStrin g which can be used in combination with
string.IndexOf, string.LastInde xOf, etc. string.Split may also be useful to
you.

-Drew



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What are the equivalant to left, right, etc. in C#. How can I extract
strings from a string without them? For instance, I have a string like
so:
>
"c:\thedir\subf older\maybeanot her\__TFMF_lrni ez55ufziugv2nnz nzeyt_b9c9c1d5-230a-43e1-b38a-7a44_0___Select ed.eps"
>
I need to return just the directory name
"c:\thedir\subf older\maybeanot her\" which may be different, and the file
name minus the extension and the "___Selecte d" portion, so return
"__TFMF_lrniez5 5ufziugv2nnznze yt_b9c9c1d5-230a-43e1-b38a-7a44_0". I could
do this in VB.NET as well as TSQL but how in C#? Thank you.
>

[Guest]

Re: Left, Right, Mid?

Thanks a lot, I've managed to extract path info from the string and even the
remaining file info, however, I cannot seem to remove the last
___Selected.ext part from the file. The ext may be .eps or .jpeg, can vary.
In sql I'd get charindex of '___' and trim from there but I cant seem to do
it do it in c#. Any thoughts?


"DrewCE" <moc.sgodniahc@ werd - backwardswrote in message
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When dealing with path names use the System.IO.Path object.
>
So to get the directory name of some path, like the one in your example,
just do...
>
string dir = System.IO.Path. GetDirectoryNam e(somePath);
>
File name minus extension...
>
string fn = System.IO.Path. GetFileNameWith outExtension(so mePath);
>
Check out the other methods in Path. They are very useful in dealing with
paths.
>
But, to answer your question as to the equivalent of Left, Right, and
Mid...see string.SubStrin g which can be used in combination with
string.IndexOf, string.LastInde xOf, etc. string.Split may also be useful
to you.
>
-Drew
>
>
>
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>What are the equivalant to left, right, etc. in C#. How can I extract
>strings from a string without them? For instance, I have a string like
>so:
>>
>"c:\thedir\sub folder\maybeano ther\__TFMF_lrn iez55ufziugv2nn znzeyt_b9c9c1d5-230a-43e1-b38a-7a44_0___Select ed.eps"
>>
>I need to return just the directory name
>"c:\thedir\sub folder\maybeano ther\" which may be different, and the file
>name minus the extension and the "___Selecte d" portion, so return
>"__TFMF_lrniez 55ufziugv2nnznz eyt_b9c9c1d5-230a-43e1-b38a-7a44_0". I
>could do this in VB.NET as well as TSQL but how in C#? Thank you.
>>

>

[DrewCE]

Re: Left, Right, Mid?

string somepath = "blahblah___bla h";

somepath.Remove (s.LastIndexOf( "___"));

-Drew

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Thanks a lot, I've managed to extract path info from the string and even
the remaining file info, however, I cannot seem to remove the last
___Selected.ext part from the file. The ext may be .eps or .jpeg, can
vary. In sql I'd get charindex of '___' and trim from there but I cant
seem to do it do it in c#. Any thoughts?
>
>
"DrewCE" <moc.sgodniahc@ werd - backwardswrote in message
news:6E942535-37F0-400D-995C-07591FBE5505@mi crosoft.com...

>When dealing with path names use the System.IO.Path object.
>>
>So to get the directory name of some path, like the one in your example,
>just do...
>>
>string dir = System.IO.Path. GetDirectoryNam e(somePath);
>>
>File name minus extension...
>>
>string fn = System.IO.Path. GetFileNameWith outExtension(so mePath);
>>
>Check out the other methods in Path. They are very useful in dealing
>with paths.
>>
>But, to answer your question as to the equivalent of Left, Right, and
>Mid...see string.SubStrin g which can be used in combination with
>string.IndexOf , string.LastInde xOf, etc. string.Split may also be useful
>to you.
>>
>-Drew
>>
>>
>>
><msnews.micros oft.comwrote in message
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>>What are the equivalant to left, right, etc. in C#. How can I extract
>>strings from a string without them? For instance, I have a string like
>>so:
>>>
>>"c:\thedir\su bfolder\maybean other\__TFMF_lr niez55ufziugv2n nznzeyt_b9c9c1d 5-230a-43e1-b38a-7a44_0___Select ed.eps"
>>>
>>I need to return just the directory name
>>"c:\thedir\su bfolder\maybean other\" which may be different, and the file
>>name minus the extension and the "___Selecte d" portion, so return
>>"__TFMF_lrnie z55ufziugv2nnzn zeyt_b9c9c1d5-230a-43e1-b38a-7a44_0". I
>>could do this in VB.NET as well as TSQL but how in C#? Thank you.
>>>

>>

>

[Marc Gravell]

Re: Left, Right, Mid?


Someting like:
string foo = "@__TFMF_lrniez 55ufziugv2nnznz eyt_b9c9c1d5-
230a-43e1-b38a-7a44_0___Select ed.eps";
string bar = foo.Substring(0 , foo.LastIndexOf ("___"));

Marc

[Michael A. Covington]

Re: Left, Right, Mid?

I think you are looking for the Substring method.