Question

I have the code below and I get the result like this

C:\\Users\\Administrator\\Projects\\CA\\Libraries\\ConvertApi-DotNet\\Example\\word2pdf-console\\bin\\Release\\\\..\\..\\..\\..\\test-files\\test.docx

The file is found but I would like to show user this path and the formating is not user friendly. I would like to get

C:\\Users\\Administrator\\Projects\\CA\\Libraries\\test-files\\test.docx 

I have tried to use Path.Combine but it do not work.

var baseDirectory = AppDomain.CurrentDomain.BaseDirectory;
string inFile = baseDirectory + @"\..\..\..\..\test-files\test.docx";

Answer 1

You could use a combination of Path.Combine and Path.GetFullPath:

var baseDirectory = AppDomain.CurrentDomain.BaseDirectory;
var file = @"..\..\..\..\test-files\test.docx";
string inFile = Path.GetFullPath(Path.Combine(baseDirectory, file));