PathDirectoryName Procedure

Gets the path of the parent directory that contains the given directory or file. Use PathFileName to return the filename part of the path.
This is done by removing the last path component from the string. No disk access is performed and the path does not need to actually exist.
Declaration
function PathDirectoryName(path as String) as String

Parameters

Return value

String — Parent directory path.

Example

Code
' this result depends on your operating system
dim path = "C:\Users\user\Documents\myfile.txt"
print PathDirectoryName(path)
print PathFileName(path)
Output
C:\Users\user\Documents
myfile.txt