Question

I am currently writing a program which searches My Documents. Currently my program is able to search and copy the main my documents folder but I am unable to make it search sub directory’s within the main my documents directory. I have tried multiple methods but none seem to be working out.
Currently I am using the below code to dump the files location into an array called files. sourcePath is declared in an array before hand.

string[] files = System.IO.Directory.GetFiles(sourcePath[loopcounter]);

I then have a loop which copy’s the files over to another directory

foreach (string s in files)

Any help as to how to fill the array files with details of files in the sub directories of a folder would be very handy. Thanks in advance!

Answer 1

Use research by pattern and specify you want use recursion :

var allFiles = Directory.GetFiles(Environment.GetFolderPath(Environment.SpecialFolder.MyDocuments),
                                 "*",
                                 SearchOption.AllDirectories);

foreach (var item in allFiles)
{
    // Do Stuff...
}