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Tom Ogilvy Tom Ogilvy is offline
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Default Stripping Path from File String

You don't think doing a file io to get the filename is a bit slow?

Don't get me wrong, I have used Dir myself when I am lazy, but . . .
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Nice!

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Sub TesterII()
Dim str As String
Dim xfile As String
Dim xpath As String

str = "D:\Development Path\Main Files\Test Procedures\Sample Data.mdb"
xfile = Dir(str)
xpath = Left(str, Len(str) - Len(xfile))

MsgBox xfile
MsgBox xpath

End Sub