PathCombine Concatenates two strings that represent properly formed paths into one path, as well as any relative path pieces.
VB4-32,5,6
Declare Function PathCombine Lib "shlwapi.dll" Alias "PathCombineA" (ByVal szDest As String, ByVal lpszDir As String, ByVal lpszFile As String) As Long |
Operating Systems Supported |
Requires Windows 2000 (or Windows NT 4.0 with Internet Explorer 4.0 or later); Requires Windows 98 (or Windows 95 with Internet Explorer 4.0 or later) |
- lpszDest
[out] Pointer to a buffer with the NULL-terminated string to hold the combined path string. The size of this buffer should be set to MAX_PATH to ensure that it is large enough to hold the returned string.
- lpszDir
[in]Address of the string that represents the directory path.
- lpszFile
[in]Address of the string that represents the file path. |
Returns a pointer to a string with the concatenated path if successful, or NULL otherwise |
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