Function to get parent director?

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From: Jeff Douglass
Date: Tue, 25 Mar 2003 03:06

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Is there an api or VCL function to return the parent directory of a given
path? For example, given "c:\\dir1\\dir2\\dir3\\dir4" is there a fucntion
that would return "c:\\dir1\\dir2\\dir3"? Basically reverse parse the
hierarchy directory structure.

thanks for any info.

Jeff

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