Question

I’ve got a number of paths like in memory (contained in an ArrayList):

C:\Program Files\Product\file.xml

What I want to do is remove the ‘C:\Program Files\’ from the path, so that just ‘Product\file.xml’. I know I could do this simply by replacing the ‘C:\Program Files\’ with ”, but the problem comes when I have paths from a localized environment, e.g. German where the path becomes:

C:\Programme\Product\file.xml

Any suggestions on how to do this?

In plain English, I want to remove everything before and including the second ‘\’.

Thanks.

Answer 1

If you want to take everything after the second backslash, use this:

path.Substring(path.IndexOf('\\', path.IndexOf('\\') + 1) + 1)

If all you want to do is take everything after the second-to-last backslash, use this:

path.Substring(path.LastIndexOf('\\', path.LastIndexOf('\\') - 1) + 1)