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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.1//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml11/DTD/xhtml11.dtd">
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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
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<title>directory::get-parent-directory Function</title>
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<b>NAnt</b>
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<a href="index.html">Function Reference</a>
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<img alt="->" src="../images/arrow.gif" /> directory::get-parent-directory</td>
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v0.91</td>
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<h1>directory::get-parent-directory</h1>
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<p> Retrieves the parent directory of the specified path. </p>
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<h3>Usage</h3>
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<code>string directory::get-parent-directory(<span class="parameter">path</span>)
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<h3>Parameters</h3>
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<th>Name</th>
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<td>path</td>
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<td>string</td>
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<td>The path for which to retrieve the parent directory.</td>
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<h3>Return Value</h3> The parent directory, or an empty <a href="http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/cpref/html/frlrfSystemStringClassTopic.asp">String</a> if <i>path</i> is the root directory, including the root of a UNC server or share name. <h3>Exceptions</h3>
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The function will fail in any of the following circumstances:
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<div style="margin-left: 40px;"><ul><li>The directory specified by <i>path</i> is read-only.</li><li><i>path</i> is a zero-length string, contains only white space, or contains one or more invalid characters.</li><li>The specified path, file name, or both exceed the system-defined maximum length.</li><li>The specified path was not found.</li></ul></div><h3>Examples</h3><ul class="examples"><li><p> Copy "readme.txt" from the current working directory to its parent directory. </p><pre class="code">
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<property name="current.dir" value="${directory::get-current-directory()}" />
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<property name="current.dir.parent" value="${directory::get-parent-directory(current.dir)}" />
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<copy file="${path::combine(current.dir, 'readme.txt')} todir="${current.dir.parent}" />
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</pre></li></ul><h3>Requirements</h3><div style="margin-left: 20px;"><b>Assembly:</b> NAnt.Core (0.91.4312.0)
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