How to get File Extension name in VB6

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I have a list which contains the name of all the required files for uploading.
Now, i want to know the extension name of each file in the list. How to do it.
Please help me out. Is there any inbuilt API which i can use.I searched the net, but found functions written for getting extension name. But i want to get the same from some inbuilt VB6 API(if exist).
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Dinesh

Posted 14-Oct-12 20:02pm

dinesh_redhawk

Updated 14-Oct-12 21:32pm

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Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 15-Oct-12 2:15am

For your information, such concept as "file extension" is long gone. There are conventions to name files like *.*, but the end of the file name after '.' is not "extension".
Besides, could you tell us at least one reason for using VB6?
--SA

[no name] 15-Oct-12 2:18am

We are supporting a legacy application written in VB.i need to select a specific set of files with extension "*.rcm" so, if u know any way , help me out.

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OriginalGriff · Answer 1 · 2012-10-14T21:13:00

Google is your friend: Be nice and visit him often. He can answer questions a lot more quickly than posting them here...

A very quick search using your subject as the search term gave over 700,000 hits, including this: VB6 - Getting a File's Extension[^]

In future, please try to do at least basic research yourself, and not waste your time or ours.

Dave Kreskowiak · Answer 2 · 2015-06-29T04:19:00

Solution 5

In built into VB6? No.

In built into the "Scripting.FileSystemObject" COM object? Yes[^].

Posted 29-Jun-15 4:19am

Dave Kreskowiak

Updated 29-Jun-15 4:20am

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Richard Deeming 29-Jun-15 10:42am

This question is from 2012! :)

Dave Kreskowiak 29-Jun-15 11:02am

f***, I hate that! It was at the top of the list again. Must have been some spammer idiot that woke it up again.