Library code snippets
Creating Folders using recursion
Assume that you're trying to create the following folder:C:\Folder1\Folder2\Folder3\Folder4
You could easily create it if the folder C:\Folder1\Folder2\Folder3 existed by simply calling the MkDir method:MkDir "C:\folder1\folder2\folder3\folder4"
However, VB flags a run-time error if the C:\folder1\folder2\folder3 does not exists. The following function makes creating subfolders more easier by checking all the parent folders and creating any of them if they did not exist using recursion.
To use this function, simply pass the FULL PATH of the folder you wish to create. Make sure that destDir always end with "\" (without quotes). The function returns TRUE if operation was successful. Otherwise, it returns FALSE.
Public Function CreateFolder(destDir As String) As Boolean
Dim i As Long
Dim prevDir As String
On Error Resume Next
For i = Len(destDir) To 1 Step -1
If Mid(destDir, i, 1) = "\" Then
prevDir = Left(destDir, i - 1)
Exit For
End If
Next i
If prevDir = "" Then CreateFolder = False: Exit Function
If Not Len(Dir(prevDir & "\", vbDirectory)) > 0 Then
If Not CreateFolder(prevDir) Then CreateFolder = False: Exit Function
End If
On Error GoTo errDirMake
MkDir destDir
CreateFolder = True
Exit Function
errDirMake:
CreateFolder = False
End Function
Example:
If CreateFolder("C:\Folder1\Folder2\Folder3\") Then
MsgBox "Folder Creation successful!"
Else
MsgBox "Folder Creation failed!"
End If
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You probably already figured this out but you would could use Microsoft.VisualBasic.Left
Imports System.IO Imports Microsoft.VisualBasic Imports VB = Microsoft.VisualBasic
Public Function CreateFolder(ByVal destDir As String) As Boolean
errDirMake: CreateFolder = False
i'm using vb.net 2005 and get an error as follows
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