ASP in a Nutshell, 2nd Edition

Name

ParentFolder (File Object, Folder Object) — Obj .ParentFolder

Synopsis

Returns a Folder object representing the folder in which the file or folder is located. This is a read-only property.

Parameters

None

Example

The following code demonstrates the use of the ParentFolder property when used with a File object and then with a Folder object. Note that, because Name is the default property of a Folder object, the code in the ASP page appears to treat the value returned by the ParentFolder property as a string.

<%

' Dimension local variables. 
Dim fsoObject        ' FileSystemObject
Dim filObject        ' File Object
Dim fdrObject        ' Folder Object
Dim strFileParent    ' Parent folder of file object
Dim strFolderParent  ' Parent folder of folder object

' Instantiate the FileSystemObject variable.
Set fsoObject = Server.CreateObject( _
                "Scripting.FileSystemObject")
' Using the GetFile method of fsoObject, initialize the 
' File object.
Set filObject = fsoObject.GetFile("d:\docs\test.txt")

' Retrieve the name of the folder containing the file Test.TXT.
' In this example, the value of strFileParent is "docs".
strFileParent = filObject.ParentFolder
' Using the GetFolder method of fsoObject, initialize 
' the Folder object.
Set fdrObject = fsoObject.GetFolder("d:\mystuff\docs")

' Retrieve the name of the folder that contains the 
' folder "docs". In this example, the value of 
' strFileParent is "mystuff".
strFolderParent = fdrObject.ParentFolder
. . . [additional code]

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