How to get top-level site collections names programmatically

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Hi everybody,

I'd be glad if someone could solve my problem.
I need to get the names of the top level site collections names;
suppose I've created the managed paths "path1/" and "path2/", I'd like
to get programmatically the array "sites","path1","path2", as it is
when creating a new site: SharePoint shows a combobox with the top
level site collection names, followed by "/" and the textbox where you
put the name.
The collection of SPSites returned by the SPVirtualServer object
returns all the sites below these collections, included the ones under
"personal" and itn't really what I need.

I've looked around for it, without success.

Thanx a lot in advance,

Paolo

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