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One possible way using GetDirectories is shown below:<br />

<pre><code id="code-20-42618883-1">            string [] subDirectories = System.IO.Directory.GetDirectories(@&quot;C:\Program Files&quot;);
            if (subDirectories.Length &gt; 0)
            {
                string firstSubDir = subDirectories[0];
                Console.WriteLine(firstSubDir);
            }</code></pre>
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One possible way using GetDirectories is shown below:


            string [] subDirectories = System.IO.Directory.GetDirectories(@"C:\Program Files");
            if (subDirectories.Length > 0)
            {
                string firstSubDir = subDirectories[0];
                Console.WriteLine(firstSubDir);
            }

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I need to get the folder name from a file path using substring in c#. The file path looks like this: O:\folder1\subfolder\text.<wbr />docx. From this I want to pull out folder1 only. How can I do that using substring?
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I need to get the folder name from a file path using substring in c#. The file path looks like this: O:\folder1\subfolder\text.docx. From this I want to pull out folder1 only. How can I do that using substring?

Use substring in C# to get part of a file path

C# is an object-oriented programming language created in conjunction with Microsoft’s .NET framework. Compilation is usually done into the Microsoft Intermediate Language (MSIL), which is then JIT-compiled to native code (and cached) during execution in the Common Language Runtime (CLR).