| PathCommonPrefix Compares two paths to determine if they share a common prefix. A prefix is one of these types: "C:\\", ".", "..", "..\\". VB4-32,5,6
Declare Function PathCommonPrefix Lib "shlwapi.dll" Alias "PathCommonPrefixA" (ByVal pszFile1 As String, ByVal pszFile2 As String, ByVal achPath 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) |
· pszFile1
[in] Address of the first path name.
· pszFile2
[in] Address of the second path name.
· pszPath
[out] Address of a buffer that receives the common prefix. If there is no common prefix, it will be set to NULL. |
| Returns the count of common prefix characters in the path. If the output buffer pointer is not NULL, then these characters are copied to the output buffer. |
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