Dynamically building filepaths in .Net

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Is there an easy way of dynamically building a filepath in .Net? At the moment I'm building the filepath by concatenating various strings (from application settings, user input and Date.ToString) but this relies on there not being double '\' characters or illegal characters etc in the strings. Obviously I can manually validate the strings for this sort of thing but I was wondering if there was something built into .Net that can handle this.

+1 for asking about this instead of just sticking with the manual path assembling method, like so many poeple do. — OregonGhost
– OregonGhost, Commented Jul 1, 2009 at 13:44

JaredPar · Accepted Answer · 2009-07-01 13:37:29Z

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Use Path.Combine

Dim p = Path.Combine(somePath, "foo\bar")

Documentation: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd169357.aspx

answered Jul 1, 2009 at 13:37

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Jon Skeet Over a year ago

Preferably Path.Combine(Path.Combine(somePath, "foo"), "bar") IMO :) (Why isn't there an overload of Path.Combine which takes more strings? Please nag the BCL team for me :)

Gishu · Accepted Answer · 2009-07-01 13:37:25Z

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System.IO.Path.Combine()
This class has many members related to Path manipulation

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