How to convert FILE:///<PATH> to just <PATH>, using built-in classes.

[Andrew Backer]

I have a few file:///c:/windows/somewhere style uris that I need to convert
to the actual physical path. I am hoping there is a built in way to handle
this.

I know I can do some text replacing and get the path, at least in this case,
but I'd rather not do that if there is something that already does it more
robustly.

// Andrew

[Cor Ligthert[MVP]]

Andrew,

You can hava a look at the uri, however I would just do
\\\
mystring = mystring.tolower.replace(file:///,"")
///

Cor

[Herfried K. Wagner [MVP]]

"Cor Ligthert[MVP]" <no************@planet.nlschrieb:

You can hava a look at the uri, however I would just do \\\
mystring = mystring.tolower.replace(file:///,"")
///

Hm, this won't change the path separator from "/" to "\". In addition, it
won't decode URL-encoded characters such as spaces ('%20').

--
M S Herfried K. Wagner
M V P <URL:http://dotnet.mvps.org/>
V B <URL:http://dotnet.mvps.org/dotnet/faqs/>

[kimiraikkonen]

On Feb 5, 8:03 pm, Andrew Backer <[e-mail]:

I have a few file:///c:/windows/somewhere style uris that I need to convert
to the actual physical path. I am hoping there is a built in way to handle
this.

I know I can do some text replacing and get the path, at least in this case,
but I'd rather not do that if there is something that already does it more
robustly.

// Andrew

If you want to get file path without "file:///" you can use substring
function as follows:
Dim a As String = "file:///c:/windows/somewhere/"
MsgBox(a.Substring(8).ToString)

which returns only "c:/windows/somewhere/"

Hope this helps.

[Cor Ligthert[MVP]]

Herfried?
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Hm, this won't change the path separator from "/" to "\". In addition, it
won't decode URL-encoded characters such as spaces ('%20').

--

Was that the question?

Cor

[Herfried K. Wagner [MVP]]

"Cor Ligthert[MVP]" <no************@planet.nlschrieb:

>Hm, this won't change the path separator from "/" to "\". In addition,
it won't decode URL-encoded characters such as spaces ('%20').

Was that the question?

Yes:

| I need to convert to the actual physical path.

--
M S Herfried K. Wagner
M V P <URL:http://dotnet.mvps.org/>
V B <URL:http://dotnet.mvps.org/dotnet/faqs/>

[Cor Ligthert[MVP]]

"Herfried K. Wagner [MVP]" <hi***************@gmx.atschreef in bericht
news:uW**************@TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl...

"Cor Ligthert[MVP]" <no************@planet.nlschrieb:

>>Hm, this won't change the path separator from "/" to "\". In addition,
it won't decode URL-encoded characters such as spaces ('%20').

Was that the question?

Yes:

| I need to convert to the actual physical path.

I thought it was

I have a few file:///c:/windows/somewhere style uris that I need to convert
to the actual physical path

We have probably another OS

Cor

[Herfried K. Wagner [MVP]]

"Cor Ligthert[MVP]" <no************@planet.nlschrieb:

>>>Hm, this won't change the path separator from "/" to "\". In addition,
it won't decode URL-encoded characters such as spaces ('%20').

Was that the question?

Yes:

| I need to convert to the actual physical path.

I thought it was

I have a few file:///c:/windows/somewhere style uris that I need to
convert
to the actual physical path

Yes, but 'c:/windows/some%20directory' is not the local path described by
the URI 'file:///c:/windows/some%20directory'. Instead, it's
'c:\windows\some directory'.

--
M S Herfried K. Wagner
M V P <URL:http://dotnet.mvps.org/>
V B <URL:http://dotnet.mvps.org/dotnet/faqs/>

[Cor Ligthert[MVP]]

"Herfried K. Wagner [MVP]" <hi***************@gmx.atschreef in bericht
news:ON**************@TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl...

"Cor Ligthert[MVP]" <no************@planet.nlschrieb:

>>
I thought it was

I have a few file:///c:/windows/somewhere style uris that I need to
convert
to the actual physical path

Yes, but 'c:/windows/some%20directory' is not the local path described by
the URI 'file:///c:/windows/some%20directory'. Instead, it's
'c:\windows\some directory'.

Why do you think that I wrote:
"You can always have a look at the Uri"
Do you think that I did not know what you wrote?
(Sounds agresive but is not meant as that, just smiling).

Cor

[Anders Carlman]

How about:
new Uri(myUriFilePath).LocalPath
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[Jonathan Nagy]

You can create a System.Uri object from your your string. Uri object
has a LocalPath property that returns a system specific path. It
appears to do the trick.

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