get directory from full path

Question

If i have:

C:\\temp\\foo\\bar\\

(NOTE: bar is a directory)

how can i parse out:

bar

Answer 1

if the answers above do not satisfy your needs, why not just substring the string from the last .

string dirName = originalDirName.Substring(originalDirName.LastIndexOf("\\") + 1);

sure, you should do some checking if the originalDirName does not end on a \ and if the originalDirName is longer than zero and actually contains \ characters.