This function returns the drive portion of a file path which includes a filename.

A blank string is returned if no drive or directory is present in the input parameter. The backslashes (\) are not returned.

Declaration: Function ExtractFileDrive(const FileName : string) : string

Example

procedure OnMapEvent(var Value:Variant);
begin
Value := ExtractFileDrive(Source.FileCon.CurrentFilename);
end;
procedure ScriptEvent (var Value : variant);
var
f: string;
begin
f := 'abc.exe'; LogInfo('ExtractFileExt(''' + f + ''') -> ''' + ExtractFileDrive(f) + '''');
f := 'C:\MyData\MyFiles\abc.exe'; LogInfo('ExtractFileExt(''' + f + ''') -> ''' + ExtractFileDrive(f) + '''');
f := '\MyDrive\MyData\MyFiles\abc.ref1.ref2.txt'; LogInfo('ExtractFileExt(''' + f + ''') -> ''' + ExtractFileDrive(f) + '''');
f := 'D:\MyData\MyFiles\TheDocumentAbc.TXT'; LogInfo('ExtractFileExt(''' + f + ''') -> ''' + ExtractFileDrive(f) + '''');
LogInfo('');
end;

The resulting log entries are as follows, where the drive letter and colon (:)only are returned.

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