How do I get a file path from my Document?

Question

Hi,
I encountered a very strange problem with absolute and relative file paths.
Getting to the point:
Myfolder ---> MainPage.pdf
Subfolder---> Project.pdf
SubsubFolder ---> Search.pdf
So we have Myfolder with the Mainpage.pdf  , from there I use a bookmark to go the Subfodler and use bookamarks to browse throu the Project.pdf and then I go even deeper when i want to use the search.query to get items from the Search.pdf which is in the Subsubfolder
So my path looks like:
Ofc the search type is boolean
search.query("MyTxt","Folder","../Myfolder/Subfolder/Subsubfolder");
And here's the problem - it does not work on every computer.
So the question is, how can i get the filepath from MainPage and use it in my search.query to avoid this problem?
Any suggestions are welcome!

Answer 1

You can use the "split" method of the  string object to get the path into an an array and then combine all but the last element.
// get full path and file name
var cPath = this.path;
// split ful path into an arrayl
var aPath = cPath.split("/");
// build the directory path
var cDir = "";
// loop through the array omitting first and last elements
for(i = 1; i < aPath.length - 1; i++) {
cDir = cDir + "/" + aPath[i];
} // end of building directory path
console.println("Directory path: " + cDir);