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VBScript in a Nutshell

by Matt Childs, Paul Lomax, Ron Petrusha
May 1995
Beginner
508 pages
16h 14m
English
O'Reilly Media, Inc.
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Name

FileSystemObject.GetDriveName Method

Syntax

                  oFileSysObj.GetDriveName (Path)
oFileSysObj

Use: Required

Data Subtype: FileSystemObject object

Any object variable returning a FileSystemObject object.

Path

Use: Required

Data Subtype: String

A path specifier.

Return Value

A Variant of subtype String.

Description

Returns the drive name of a given path.

Rules at a Glance

If the drive name can’t be determined from the given path, a zero-length string (“”) is returned.

Programming Tips & Gotchas

  • For local and mapped drives, GetDriveName appears to look for the colon as a part of the drive’s name to determine whether a drive name is present. For network drives, it appears to look for the computer name and drive name.

  • GetDriveName is really a string-parsing method rather than a filesystem method. In particular, it does not verify that the drive name that it extracts from Path actually exists on the system.

  • Path can be a network drive or share.

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