How to retrieve the url of the attachment associated with the list item?

Dudes,
It is very simple.Before I tried in many ways.I felt this one is the simple approach.Once after you get the listItem ,ie.SPListItem follow the procedure as shown below.

string name=string.Empty;
splistitem item=list.GetItems(queryItems)[0];
foreach(string file in item.Attachments)
{
name=item.Attachments.UrlPrefix+file;
}
return name;

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