Question

I tried using Path.GetDirectoryName() but it doesn’t work.

What I’m trying to get is from /home/nubela/test/some_folder , I wanna get “some_folder”

How can I do this? The method should work for both Windows/Linux (Mono)

Thanks!

Answer 1

If you have the path as a string already you can use this method to extract the lowest level directory:

String dir
    = yourPath.Substring(
          yourPath.LastIndexOf(Path.DirectorySeparatorChar) + 1);

Since this code uses Path.DirectorySeparatorChar it is platform independent.