Uri.Segments Property (System)

Segments Property

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Uri..::.Segments Property

Gets an array containing the path segments that make up the specified URI.

Namespace: System
Assembly: System (in System.dll)

Syntax

Visual Basic (Declaration)

Public ReadOnly Property Segments As String()

Visual Basic (Usage)

Dim instance As Uri
Dim value As String()

value = instance.Segments

public string[] Segments { get; }

Visual C++

public:
property array<String^>^ Segments {
    array<String^>^ get ();
}

JScript

public function get Segments () : String[]

Property Value

Type: array<System..::.String>[]()[]
A String array that contains the path segments that make up the specified URI.

Exceptions

Exception	Condition
InvalidOperationException	This instance represents a relative URI, and this property is valid only for absolute URIs.

Remarks

The Segments property returns an array of strings containing the "segments" (substrings) that form the URI's absolute path. The first segment is obtained by parsing the absolute path from its first character until you reach a slash (/) or the end of the path. Each additional segment begins at the first character after the preceding segment, and terminates with the next slash or the end of the path. (A URI's absolute path contains everything after the host and port and before the query and fragment.)

The following example shows the absolute path and segments for two URIs. The second example illustrates that the fragment and query are not part of the absolute path and therefore are not segments.

Absolute URI: http://www.contoso.com/Chapters/Chapter1/Sections/Section1.htm
Absolute path: /Chapters/Chapter1/Sections/Section1.htm
Segments: /Chapters/Chapter1/Sections/Section1.htm

Absolute URI: http://www.contoso.com/Chapters/Chapter1/Sections/Section1.htm#page1?answer=NO
Absolute path: /Chapters/Chapter1/Sections/Section1.htm
Segments: /Chapters/Chapter1/Sections/Section1.htm

Note that because the absolute path starts with a '/', the first segment contains it and nothing else.

Examples

The following example creates a Uri instance with 3 segments and displays the segments on the screen.

Visual Basic

Dim uriAddress1 As New Uri("http://www.contoso.com/title/index.htm")
Console.WriteLine("The parts are {0}, {1}, {2}", uriAddress1.Segments(0), uriAddress1.Segments(1), uriAddress1.Segments(2))

Uri uriAddress1 = new Uri("http://www.contoso.com/title/index.htm");
Console.WriteLine("The parts are {0}, {1}, {2}", uriAddress1.Segments[0], uriAddress1.Segments[1], uriAddress1.Segments[2]);

Visual C++

Uri^ uriAddress1 = gcnew Uri( "http://www.contoso.com/title/index.htm" );
Console::WriteLine( "The parts are {0}, {1}, {2}", uriAddress1->Segments[ 0 ], uriAddress1->Segments[ 1 ], uriAddress1->Segments[ 2 ] );

Platforms

Windows 7, Windows Vista, Windows XP SP2, Windows XP Media Center Edition, Windows XP Professional x64 Edition, Windows XP Starter Edition, Windows Server 2008 R2, Windows Server 2008, Windows Server 2003, Windows Server 2000 SP4, Windows Millennium Edition, Windows 98, Windows CE, Windows Mobile for Smartphone, Windows Mobile for Pocket PC, Xbox 360, Zune

The .NET Framework and .NET Compact Framework do not support all versions of every platform. For a list of the supported versions, see .NET Framework System Requirements.

Version Information

.NET Framework

Supported in: 3.5, 3.0, 2.0, 1.1, 1.0

.NET Compact Framework

Supported in: 3.5, 2.0, 1.0

XNA Framework

Supported in: 3.0, 2.0, 1.0

Reference

Uri Class

Uri Members

System Namespace