Question

I need to find a file(s) that begin with the character “prft” the name of this files is “prft0000.140”, “prft2100.140”, “prft1258.140″… etc. And I need to verify if this file(s) exists in a directory specific. So I have this Regex for find them, but I don’t know how write the filter to match.

List<string> prftFiles = (new DirectoryInfo(filePath))
                        .GetFiles(".", SearchOption.AllDirectories)
                        .Where(a => Regex.IsMatch(a.Name, "prft[^*]$"))
                        .Select(fi => fi.Name)
                        .ToList();

this not work “prft[^*]$”, so, How is it??

Answer 1

why not just do List prftFiles = (new DirectoryInfo(filePath)).GetFiles("prft*", SearchOption.AllDirectories)