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Path Combine: Leading Slash in relative path

Submitted by vaibhav on Thu, 05/26/2011 - 15:14
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System.IO.Path.Combine is one of the scarcely used method provided by .Net Framework. It is used to combine two strings in to a complete path. Path.Combine is also essential for cross-platform coding as it uses whatever path separator the current OS uses.

 

string basePath = @"c:\";
string relativePath1 = "MyDocuments";
string relativePath2 = "hello.txt";
string combinedPath1 = basePath + relativePath1 + "\\" + relativePath2;    //Traditional Way
string combinedPath2 = System.IO.Path.Combine(basePath, relativePath1, relativePath2);
string combinedPath3 = System.IO.Path.Combine(basePath,"\\", relativePath1, relativePath2);

 

But take care of leading slash in relative path, if you add a leading slash in relative path Path.Combine will drop the basePath. You can add a trailing slash in first parameter i.e. string basePath = @"c:\";  

 

Output of the above statements is

combinedPath1 : c:\MyDocuments\hello.txt;
combinedPath2 : c:\MyDocuments\hello.txt;
combinedPath3 : \MyDocuments\hello.txt; //first parameter i.e basePath has been dropped.

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