C#: Need to remove last folder from file name path

Question

I'm pulling a file path from a database to use as a file source. I need to remove the last folder from the source path, so I can then create new folders to use as the destination path.

Example source file path: \\\\ServerName\\Documents\\MasterDocumentFolder\\

I need to remove the last folder from that string and get this: \\\\ServerName\\Documents\\

So I can create a folder like this: \\\\ServerName\\Documents\\NewDocumentFolder1\\

Edit: I have updated my example paths to show why the Path.GetDirectoryName() won't work in this case.

Answer 1

What you are looking for is the GetParent() method in the Directory class

string path = @"C:\Documents\MasterDocumentFolder\"; DirectoryInfo parentDir = Directory.GetParent(path); // or possibly DirectoryInfo parentDir = Directory.GetParent(path.EndsWith("\\") ? path : string.Concat(path, "\\"));  // The result is available here var myParentDir = parentDir.Parent.FullName