Question

I am trying to get all the .cs files in a certain path. I am doing this using

string [] files = Directory.GetFiles(path, pattern);

Where path is a valid folder path and pattern is *.cs. However this also returns AssemblyInfo.cs and i dont want that file to be included although it matches the pattern. I want to ignore all the files with the name AssemblyInfo.cs

Answer 1

If you still need it in an array you can do the following:

string[] files = Directory.GetFiles(path, pattern).Where(filename => !filename.EndsWith("AssemblyInfo.cs")).ToArray();

If you don’t need it as an array then you can leave off the call to .ToArray() and that will return an IEnumerable<string>.

If you’re using a version of .NET that doesn’t support Linq (i.e. a version before 3.5) then you can just skip over those parts when you iterate over the array, like so:

string[] files = Directory.GetFiles(path, pattern);
foreach (string filename in files)
{
    if (filename.EndsWith("AssemblyInfo.cs"))
    {
        continue;
    }
}