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.TH PathIsDirectoryA 3w "Oct 2012" "Wine API" "Wine API"

.SH NAME
\fBPathIsDirectoryA\fR (SHLWAPI.@)
.SH SYNOPSIS
BOOL PathIsDirectoryA
 (
  LPCSTR \fIlpszPath\fR
 )

.SH DESCRIPTION
.PP
Determine if a path is a valid directory. 

.SH PARAMS
\fIlpszPath\fR \fB[In]\fR  Path to check.
.PP

.SH RETURNS
.PP
\fBFILE_ATTRIBUTE_DIRECTORY\fR if \fIlpszPath\fR exists and can be read (See Notes) \fBFALSE\fR if \fIlpszPath\fR is invalid or not a directory. 

.SH NOTES
.PP
Although this function is prototyped as returning a \fBBOOL\fR, it returns \fBFILE_ATTRIBUTE_DIRECTORY\fR for success. This means that code such as: 
.br
  if (PathIsDirectoryA("c:\\windows\\") == TRUE)
.br
    ...
.PP
will always fail. 

.SH IMPLEMENTATION
.PP
Declared in \fB"shlwapi.h"\fR. 
.PP
Implemented in \fB"dlls/shlwapi/path.c"\fR. 
.PP
Debug channel \fB"shell"\fR.