Question: I have a filepath say "C:\hello\hi\dotnet\abc.txt". I just want the directories from the path.

Expected Output :

```
hello
hi
dotnet

```

I have used `Path.DirectorySeparatorChar` but it doesn't work.So help me out to solve this problem.

Answer: 
use (**EDIT as per comments**)  

```
string YourFilePath = @"C:\hello\hi\dotnet\abc.txt";
string[] YourResult = Path.GetDirectoryName (YourFilePath).Split (new char[] {Path.DirectorySeparatorChar}).Skip(1).ToArray();

```

And this is the result:  

`YourResult[0]` contains hello  

`YourResult[1]` contains hi  

`YourResult[2]` contains dotnet  

For MSDN references see:  

* <http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.io.path.getdirectoryname.aspx>
* <http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.io.path.directoryseparatorchar.aspx>
* <http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/b873y76a.aspx>
* <http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb358985.aspx>
* <http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb298736.aspx>
You Can Do 

```
string filePath="C:\\DocumentsAndSettings\\Users\\Xyz\\Downloads\\abc.txt";
filePath=Path.GetFullPath(filePath);
var split =filePath.Split('\\');
var sp = split.Take(split.Length - 1);
foreach ( var st in sp)
{
     Console.WriteLine(st);
}

```