Question

How to search foldernames (for example ‘xerity’)
and zip found folders (for example ‘zerxeritynar’, ‘hiun xerity natrer’ ,etc.) with Visual Basic.NET?

Answer 1

For zipping, you can use SharpZipLib from this location. Using this library to perform your request is very easy:

Dim sSourcePath As String
Dim sTextToFind As String
Dim sZipFileName As String

sSourcePath = "D:\Temp"
sTextToFind = "test"
sZipFileName = "D:\temp\zippedfiles.zip"

' Zip all of the found files
Dim oArchive As New FastZip

oArchive.RestoreDateTimeOnExtract = True
oArchive.CreateEmptyDirectories = False
' This uses the directory filter (last parameter) to only include the directories that match the string.
oArchive.CreateZip(sZipFileName, sSourcePath, False, "", "*" & sTextToFind & "*")