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VB Script Help

VB Script Help

VB Script Help

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I am looking for some information on how to manipulate file names in VB. I need to strip extraneous information off of a file name?  

Convert a file named 4445555_27_Folder_FileName.tiff into 4445555_27_FileName.tiff (stripping the folder section out).

RE: VB Script Help

replace("4445555_27_Folder_FileName.tiff", "_Folder","")

For manipulating path names you may want to look at Scripting.FileSystemObject.

You may also want to look at the Split and Instr functions.

RE: VB Script Help

Something like

Function GetFileTitle(fname As String) As String
    Dim fso As New FileSystemObject
    GetFileTitle = fso.GetFileName(fname)
End Function

You have to have a project reference to Microsoft Scripting Runtime

And there are many other useful things like getting the folder name and much more.

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