Re: Relative path to absolute

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From: Steven Burn (nobody_at_PVT_it-mate.co.uk)
Date: 04/02/04 

Date: Fri, 2 Apr 2004 18:12:35 +0100

If blah.exe is in the same folder as your app, why not just use App.Path?

i.e. App.Path & "\blah.exe"

You can use the following to strip the filename;

Function StripName(name As String) As String
    Dim path As Variant
    path = Split(name, "\")
    StripName = path(UBound(path))
End Function

And the following to strip the path;

Function Strippath(sFileName As String)
    Dim intPos As Integer
    intPos = InStrRev(sFileName, "\")
    If intPos = 0 Then
        Exit Function
    Else
        Strippath = Left$(sFileName, intPos)
    End If
End Function 

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Mike Kanski <mkanski@asi-solutions.com> wrote in message
news:upnLpTNGEHA.1396@TK2MSFTNGP11.phx.gbl...
> Is there an easy way to convert relative path to the absolute?
>
> I have a VB application that reads INI file for all the objects that it
> needs to run.
> INI file example:
>
> [Run]
> RunBlah=../../Blah.exe
>
> The app knows the base address:
> c:\programs\company\myapp\
>
> Now i need to read the RunBlah entry and run:
> c:\programs\blah.exe
>
> Is there an easy way or maybe a function i can call to get the absolute
> path?
>
> i.e.
> Function GetAbsolutePath(BasePath,RelativePath) as string
> ...
>     returns absolute path
> end function
>
>
>

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