Split varying list of file paths into all folders and file names

Question

I have a list of a few hundred text file paths varying in number of folders.

eg C:/user/folder/subfolder/filename.docx

I need to split these into the file name and folders. I used to do this by using excel functions "FIND", "LEN", "RIGHT" etc. but this only worked if all paths have the same number of folders which is currently not the case.

How might I complete this in VBA? My VBA knowledge is minimal but with this being such a common task, there should be a script out there somewhere that completes this?

I have searched the web, but it is hard to find a script that completes this.

Any help whatsoever would be really appreciated.

Thanks!

Answer 1

If you wanted a VBA approach, something like the following would work:

   Dim fso As FileSystemObject
   Dim path As String
   Dim folder As String
   Dim file As String

   path = "C:/user/folder/subfolder/filename.docx"
   Set fso = New FileSystemObject
   folder = fso.GetParentFolderName(path)
   file = fso.GetFileName(path)