Is there a way to easily parse file paths in portable class libraries?

Question

I\'m needing to parse a path into parts from within a portable class library and get things like the filename, extension, just directory name, etc.

All of these met

Answer 1

I would use Uri class

var segments = new Uri("file://c:/dir1/dir2/a.txt").Segments

which is supported by PCL

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.uri.aspx