Returns the directory portion of a path name, that is, the path name minus the file name.

Note This @function is new with Release 6.

Syntax

@FileDir( pathname)

Parameters

pathname

Text or text list. Path name of a file.

directory

Text or text list. The directory part of the path name.

If the parameter is a list, the function operates on each element of the list, and the return value is a list with the same number of elements.

The directory part of a file name is everything to the left of the file name as demonstrated below:

Path name	Directory portion
europe.dat	Null
c:\\europe.dat	c:\
c:\\market\\data\\europe.dat	c:\market\data\
\\europe.dat	\

Use @Right with the path name and @FileDir to extract the file name.

Example
See Also

Locating and extracting substrings

Glossary