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Suban Purushothmakumar
Suban Purushothmakumar
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Posted by Suban Purushothmakumar
Suban Purushothmakumar
3,306 Points

Why use directory.FullName in the Combine method?

For the path combine method the directory.FullName was used along with the name of the file. As I can see currentDirectory == directory.FullName . Is there any reason why you use directory.FullName instead of currentyDirectory()?

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Steven Parker
Steven Parker
231,110 Points
Steven Parker
Steven Parker
231,110 Points

If you provide a link to the course page it might help in giving a more specific answer. But offhand, it seems that it would be more efficient to use a property of an already-populated object than to call a method to get the same data.