title: Parsing an internet address string into usable parts
body: <p>Is there a library that parses an ftp string into parts for vb.net?</p>
  
  <p>I need to parse this string into
  "ftps://192.168.1.50/testdir/data_base"</p>
  
  <p>protocol= "ftps://"</p>
  
  <p>hostname: "192.168.1.50"</p>
  
  <p>datadirectory: "/testdir/data_base"</p>
  
  <p>Any good ideas are appreciatted.</p>
  
  <p>Cheers</p>