Comments on: ExtractFileName

By: DavidB

DavidB — Sat, 03 Sep 2005 06:37:00 +0000

Hi there - I cpied the code and came up with a couple of problems which I have managed to fix.

Firstly the single quote at the start of the line
?eturns the filename from a full path
needs to be replaced with a single quote like this one ' to make it a comment.

Second the line
Const sPATHSEP As String = ?
needs to be amended as follows
Const sPATHSEP As String = ""

Not sure why this corruption is occurring but my comments may help someone else.

Regards David

By: Richie(UK)

Richie(UK) — Mon, 31 Jan 2005 21:55:00 +0000

Aahhh … I see. Cheers.

By: Dick

Dick — Mon, 31 Jan 2005 16:02:00 +0000

Richie: Because the file would have to exist for Dir to work. There may be a case that you need to parse a string that looks like a path and file, but that actually isn’t a file on the hard drive. Pretty rare, I know, but that was the thinking.

By: Richie(UK)

Richie(UK) — Mon, 31 Jan 2005 13:58:00 +0000

Hi,

Forgive the late post - I just happened to be browsing through some of the code here (there's some good stuff!).

Is there any reason why we can't simply use Dir?

Like this:

Sub Test()
Dim strFullName As String

strFullName = ThisWorkbook.FullName
MsgBox "The fullname is : " & strFullName & vbNewLine & _
"The filename is : " & Dir(strFullName)

End Sub

By: Rob van Gelder

Rob van Gelder — Thu, 01 Jul 2004 05:46:00 +0000

Might want to make use of Application.PathSeparator

By: Dick

Dick — Wed, 26 May 2004 17:37:00 +0000

Using Split is pure genius. Now why didn’t I think of that?

By: Juan Pablo

Juan Pablo — Wed, 26 May 2004 17:29:00 +0000

I posted something similar in VBAExpress, here.

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