Question

This is the line:

string t = Path.GetDirectoryName(file1);

The result is:

C:\\Users\\bout0_000\\AppData\\Local\\Extracting_Frames\\Extracting_Frames\\dat file\\converted.avi\\histogramValues.dat

I want it to only contain: converted.avi.

PS: converted.avi is not a file name it’s a path name. I want to get the last part of the path the last subdirectory without the file name.

Answer 1

if converted.avi is the file name then use this

string t = Path.GetFileName(file1);

Docs: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-gb/library/system.io.path.getfilename.aspx

However, if that is the name of a directory, you could just extract everything after the last backslash from the result you already have. eg

var path = Path.GetDirectoryName(fileName);
var parentFolder = path.Substring(path.LastIndexOf('\\')+1);

Live example: http://rextester.com/RYPMI91227