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

I just coded this since I didn't find any already built in in C#.

/// 

/// get the directory path segments.
/// 
/// the directory path.
/// a IEnumerable containing the get directory path segments.
public IEnumerable GetDirectoryPathSegments(string directoryPath)
{
    if (string.IsNullOrEmpty(directoryPath))
    { throw new Exception($"Invalid Directory: {directoryPath ?? "null"}"); }

    var currentNode = new System.IO.DirectoryInfo(directoryPath);

    var targetRootNode = currentNode.Root;
    if (targetRootNode == null) return new string[] { currentNode.Name };
    var directorySegments = new List();
    while (string.Compare(targetRootNode.FullName, currentNode.FullName, StringComparison.InvariantCultureIgnoreCase) != 0)
    {
        directorySegments.Insert(0, currentNode.Name);
        currentNode = currentNode.Parent;
    }
    directorySegments.Insert(0, currentNode.Name);
    return directorySegments;
}