How does one extract each folder name from a path?

Question

My path is \\\\server\\folderName1\\another name\\something\\another folder\\

How do I extract each folder name into a string if I don\'t know how many

Answer 1

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    /// 

    /// Use to emulate the C lib function _splitpath()
    /// 
    /// The path to split
    /// optional root if a relative path
    /// the folders in the path. 
    ///     Item 0 is drive letter with ':' 
    ///     If path is UNC path then item 0 is "\\"
    /// 
    /// 
    /// string p1 = @"c:\p1\p2\p3\p4";
    /// string[] ap1 = p1.SplitPath();
    /// // ap1 = {"c:", "p1", "p2", "p3", "p4"}
    /// string p2 = @"\\server\p2\p3\p4";
    /// string[] ap2 = p2.SplitPath();
    /// // ap2 = {@"\\", "server", "p2", "p3", "p4"}
    /// string p3 = @"..\p3\p4";
    /// string root3 = @"c:\p1\p2\";
    /// string[] ap3 = p1.SplitPath(root3);
    /// // ap3 = {"c:", "p1", "p3", "p4"}
    /// 
    public static string[] SplitPath(this string path, string rootpath = "")
    {
        string drive;
        string[] astr;
        path = Path.GetFullPath(Path.Combine(rootpath, path));
        if (path[1] == ':')
        {
            drive = path.Substring(0, 2);
            string newpath = path.Substring(2);
            astr = newpath.Split(new[] { Path.DirectorySeparatorChar }
                , StringSplitOptions.RemoveEmptyEntries);
        }
        else
        {
            drive = @"\\";
            astr = path.Split(new[] { Path.DirectorySeparatorChar }
                , StringSplitOptions.RemoveEmptyEntries);
        }
        string[] splitPath = new string[astr.Length + 1];
        splitPath[0] = drive;
        astr.CopyTo(splitPath, 1);
        return splitPath;
    }