c sharp code

This is nothing new, but I felt the need to share since so many miss it.
Many a times I see stuff like this being done (even I also did for sometime):

string FolderPath = FilePath.Substring(0, FilePath.LastIndexOf(@"\"));

Obviously they are trying to get the full path to a file. Next time your thinking about doing something like that consider:

System.IO.FileInfo fi = new System.IO.FileInfo(FilePath);
string FolderPath = fi.DirectoryName;

Much easier.

Take a look at all the other goodies in the System.IO.FileInfo class:

fi.Extension
fi.FullName
fi.Name
fi.Length
fi.Directory.FullName
fi.Directory.Name
fi.Directory.Root.FullName
fi.DirectoryName

Not to mention these methods:

fi.Open();
fi.OpenRead();
fi.OpenText();
fi.OpenWrite();

More: http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en-us/cpref/html/frlrfSystemIOFileInfoClassTopic.asp



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Mitesh Mehta
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