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Definition
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Overloads
- The cell function is used to get the full file name and path: CELL('filename',A1) The result looks like this: pathworkbook.xlsmsheet The full file name and path are fed into the LEFT function, which is used to extract just the full directory path.
- The returned file names are appended to the supplied path parameter. This method is identical to GetFiles (String, String) with the asterisk (.) specified as the search pattern. The path parameter can specify relative or absolute path information. Relative path information is interpreted as relative to the current working directory.
| GetFullPath(String) | Returns the absolute path for the specified path string. |
| GetFullPath(String, String) | Returns an absolute path from a relative path and a fully qualified base path. |
Returns the absolute path for the specified path string.
Parameters
- path
- String
The file or directory for which to obtain absolute path information.
Returns
- String
The fully qualified location of path, such as 'C:MyFile.txt'.
Exceptions
path is a zero-length string, contains only white space, or contains one or more of the invalid characters defined in GetInvalidPathChars().
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The system could not retrieve the absolute path.
The caller does not have the required permissions.
path is null.
path contains a colon (':') that is not part of a volume identifier (for example, 'c:').
The specified path, file name, or both exceed the system-defined maximum length.
Examples
The following example demonstrates the GetFullPath method on a Windows-based desktop platform.
Remarks
The absolute path includes all information required to locate a file or directory on a system.
The file or directory specified by path is not required to exist. For example, if c:tempnewdir is the current directory, calling GetFullPath on a file name such as test.txt returns c:tempnewdirtest.txt. The file need not exist.
Important
If path is a relative path, this overload returns a fully qualified path that can be based on the current drive and current directory. The current drive and current directory can change at any time as an application executes. As a result, the path returned by this overload cannot be determined in advance. To return a deterministic path, call the GetFullPath(String, String) overload. You can also call the IsPathFullyQualified method to determine whether a path is fully qualified or relative and therefore whether a call to GetFullPath is necessary.
However, if path does exist, the caller must have permission to obtain path information for path. Note that unlike most members of the Path class, this method accesses the file system.
This method uses the current directory and current volume information to fully qualify path. If you specify a file name only in path, GetFullPath returns the fully qualified path of the current directory.
If you pass in a short file name, it is expanded to a long file name.
If a path contains no significant characters, it is invalid unless it contains one or more '.' characters followed by any number of spaces; then it will be parsed as either '.' or '..'.
.NET Core 1.1 and later versions and .NET Framework 4.6.2 and later versions also support paths that include device names, such as '?C:'.
For more information on file path formats on Windows, see File path formats on Windows systems. For a list of common I/O tasks, see Common I/O Tasks.
Returns an absolute path from a relative path and a fully qualified base path.
Parameters
- path
- String
A relative path to concatenate to basePath.
- basePath
- String
The beginning of a fully qualified path.
Returns
- String
The absolute path.
Exceptions
path or basePath is null.
basePath is not a fully qualified path.
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path or basePath contains one or more of the invalid characters defined in GetInvalidPathChars().
Examples
The following example defines a variable, basePath, to represent an application's current directory. It then passes it to the GetFullPath method to get a fully qualified path to the application's data directory.
Get File Path Vba
Remarks
If path is an empty path, the method returns basePath. If path is a fully qualified path, the method passes path to the GetFullPath(String) method and returns the result.
Use this method to return a deterministic path based on a specified volume and rooted directory when you're using relative paths. Using a predefined basePath rather than one based on the current drive directory guards against unwanted file paths caused by unexpected changes in the current drive and directory.
How To Find A File Path
Applies to
Get File Path Powershell
The dirname function does not usually return a slash on the end, which might encourage you to create links using code like this:
$url = dirname($_SERVER['PHP_SELF']) . '/somepage.php';
However dirname returns a slash if the path you specify is the root, so $url in that case would become '//somepage.php'. If you put that URL as the action on a form, for example, submitting the form will try to go to http://somepage.php.
I ran into this when I wrote a site on a url with a path, www.somehost.com/client/somepage.php, where the code above works great, but then wanted to put it on a subdomain, client.somehost.com/somepage.php, where things started breaking.
The best solution would be to create a function that generates absolute URLs and use that throughout the site, but creating a safe_dirname function (and an htaccess rewrite to fix double-slashes just in case) fixed the issue for me:
<?php
function safe_dirname($path)
{
$dirname = dirname($path);
return $dirname '/' ? ' : $dirname;
}
?>