To compare two filenames

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To compare two filenames(blogs.msdn.com)

submitted by schalkvanwyk(1335) 3 years, 8 months ago

Back in VB land I was making two different calls into some framework, and each call gave me back a filename, and I needed to judge whether the two results were talking about the same file. But how? The framework docs didn't give any guarantee that they'd give back filenames in the same format. What if one call returned long filenames and the other returned it with different casing? or 8.3 format? Or UNC? Or long UNC? The following function is the best I could come up with. I think it only makes sense to compare filenames if they point to an existing file. And I called the function "DidFileNamesPointToSameFile", in the past tense, because by the time the function returns then they might no longer point to the same file anymore!

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