Parsing text files

[Justin Fancy]

Hi Everyone,

I am creating a vb.net application, and i'm almost done. Except for one
problem. I need to be able to change this output:

C:\Documents and Settings\fancyj \My Documents\Visua l Studio
Projects\FileDi fferencing\bin\ Comparison.ldb

into a format that is in another file:

/VisualStudioPro jects/FileDifferencin g/bin/Comparison.ldb

So, basically I want to cut the leading folders and include only the
subfolder off of the root.

Any suggestions?

[Tim Patrick]

Re: Parsing text files

If the start of the path is the official My Documents folder for the user,
you could try something like this.

Dim sourcePath As String
Dim destPath As String

sourcePath = "C:\Documen ts and Settings\fancyj \My Documents\Visua l
Studio Projects\FileDi fferencing\bin\ Comparison.ldb"
destPath = Replace(sourceP ath, My.Computer.Fil eSystem.Special Directories.MyD ocuments,
"")
destPath = Replace(destPat h, "\", "/")

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Tim Patrick
Start-to-Finish Visual Basic 2005

C:\Documents and Settings\fancyj \My Documents\Visua l Studio
Projects\FileDi fferencing\bin\ Comparison.ldb
>
into a format that is in another file:
>
/VisualStudioPro jects/FileDifferencin g/bin/Comparison.ldb
>

[Herfried K. Wagner [MVP]]

Re: Parsing text files

"Justin Fancy" <justinfancy@gm ail.comschrieb:

I am creating a vb.net application, and i'm almost done. Except for one
problem. I need to be able to change this output:
>
C:\Documents and Settings\fancyj \My Documents\Visua l Studio
Projects\FileDi fferencing\bin\ Comparison.ldb
>
into a format that is in another file:
>
/VisualStudioPro jects/FileDifferencin g/bin/Comparison.ldb
>
So, basically I want to cut the leading folders and include only the
subfolder off of the root.

In addition to the other reply, check out the shared methods of
'System.IO.Path ' and the 'System.Uri' class.

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M S Herfried K. Wagner
M V P <URL:http://dotnet.mvps.org/>
V B <URL:http://dotnet.mvps.org/dotnet/faqs/>