How Do I Traverse One Folder Up From File Location?

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I have a path extracted from stored procedure.The path points to a file but i want to traverse one folder up. How should i approach to the problem?
The code for path extracted is:
extractedPath =Convert.ToString( cmd2.ExecuteScalar())

Posted 17-Jun-14 1:17am

Anshumaan Chaturvedi

Updated 17-Jun-14 1:21am

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Alexander Sharykin · Accepted Answer · 2014-06-17T01:30:00

Solution 1

C#

using System.IO;
// ...
string x = Path.GetDirectoryName(extractedPath); // containing folder
string y = Path.GetDirectoryName(x); // 1 folder up

y may be null, if x is a root folder (e.g. x = C:\)

Posted 17-Jun-14 1:30am

Alexander Sharykin

Updated 17-Jun-14 1:34am

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Anshumaan Chaturvedi 17-Jun-14 7:38am

Hey that works. Thanks Alexander