FoxPro JustDrive function
The VFP JustDrive() function returns the drive letter from
a string containing the full path of a file or a directory.
For example:
JustDrive
("C:\Microsoft Visual FoxPro 9\vfp9.exe")
would return the drive letter and colon:
"C:"
Note that JustDrive() does not check
whether the drive actually exists, it just processes the string passed
in as a parameter. The JustDrive()
function will return the first two characters from the string if
the second of these is a colon. If the second character is not a colon
then the function will return an empty string. As an example of
the problems that this can cause, the use of a valid UNC network path such as:
JustDrive
("\\XP_Server\Shipped")
would return the empty string:
""
We have found that the JustDrive() function
is of limited use. The only time that we have found it useful is when an older
application has had to run on a variety of machines, each of which had the server
mapped to a different drive letter.
VBA equivalent
Microsoft Access does not have equivalents to these FoxPro file name
commands so I wrote this library
Visual Basic functions
to do give me the same facilities in VBA.
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