Question

I am trying to obtain the same files using Intersect method from two folders.
123.xml files are the same (no change with content, date, size) in all the folders.

Scores\Content\123.xml
Scores\Content\hi.xml
Scores\123.xml

Power\Content\123.xml
Power\Content\helo.xml
Power\123.xml

This is from the C# code

        System.IO.DirectoryInfo dir1 = new System.IO.DirectoryInfo(path1);
        System.IO.DirectoryInfo dir2 = new System.IO.DirectoryInfo(path2);

        IEnumerable<System.IO.FileInfo> list1 = dir1.GetFiles("*.*", System.IO.SearchOption.AllDirectories);
        IEnumerable<System.IO.FileInfo> list2 = dir2.GetFiles("*.*", System.IO.SearchOption.AllDirectories);

        FileCompare myFileCompare = new FileCompare();

        bool areIdentical = list1.SequenceEqual(list2, myFileCompare);

        if (areIdentical == true)
        {
            Console.WriteLine("the two folders are the same");
        }
        else
        {
            Console.WriteLine("The two folders are not the same");
        }


        var queryCommonFiles = list1.Intersect(list2, myFileCompare);

The queryCommonFiles is only returning the 123.xml from Content folder, but not the other one.

This is the code from the FileCompare

class FileCompare : System.Collections.Generic.IEqualityComparer<System.IO.FileInfo>
{

    public FileCompare() { }

    public bool Equals(System.IO.FileInfo f1, System.IO.FileInfo f2)
    {
        return (f1.Name == f2.Name &&
                f1.Length == f2.Length);
    }

    // Return a hash that reflects the comparison criteria. According to the 
    // rules for IEqualityComparer<T>, if Equals is true, then the hash codes must
    // also be equal. Because equality as defined here is a simple value equality, not
    // reference identity, it is possible that two or more objects will produce the same
    // hash code.
    public int GetHashCode(System.IO.FileInfo fi)
    {
        string s = String.Format("{0}{1}", fi.Name, fi.Length);
        return s.GetHashCode();
    }

}

EDIT:

var queryList1Only = (from file in list1
                                  select file).Except(list2, myFileCompare);

            Console.WriteLine("The following files are in list1 but not list2:\n");
            foreach (var v in queryList1Only)
            {
                Console.WriteLine(v.FullName);
            }


            var queryList2Only = (from file in list2
                                  select file).Except(list1, myFileCompare);

            Console.WriteLine("The following files are in list2 but not list1:\n");
            foreach (var v in queryList2Only)
            {
                Console.WriteLine(v.FullName);
            }

This produces as hi.xml for list1 and helo.xml for list2. And as I said only one 123.xml for the intersect method.

Any suggestions would be appreciated

Thanks,

Answer 1

I just changed the Equals method to achieve the desired results

class FileCompare : System.Collections.Generic.IEqualityComparer<System.IO.FileInfo>
    {

        public FileCompare() { }

        public bool Equals(System.IO.FileInfo f1, System.IO.FileInfo f2)
        {
            return (f1.Name == f2.Name && f1.Directory.Name == f2.Directory.Name && 
                    f1.Length == f2.Length);
        }

        // Return a hash that reflects the comparison criteria. According to the 
        // rules for IEqualityComparer<T>, if Equals is true, then the hash codes must
        // also be equal. Because equality as defined here is a simple value equality, not
        // reference identity, it is possible that two or more objects will produce the same
        // hash code.
        public int GetHashCode(System.IO.FileInfo fi)
        {
            string s = String.Format("{0}{1}", fi.Name, fi.Length);
            return s.GetHashCode();
        }

    }