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Asked: May 15, 20262026-05-15T10:31:11+00:00 2026-05-15T10:31:11+00:00

I’m having a bit of trouble passing this parameter to a class i have.

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I’m having a bit of trouble passing this parameter to a class i have. Does anybody have any ideas?

Class 1’s code:

public void DriveRecursion(string retPath)
{
    //recurse through files.  Let user press 'ok' to move onto next step        
    // string[] files = Directory.GetFiles(retPath, "*.*", SearchOption.AllDirectories);

    string pattern = " *[\\~#%&*{}/<>?|\"-]+ *";
    //string replacement = "";
    Regex regEx = new Regex(pattern);

    string[] fileDrive = Directory.GetFiles(retPath, "*.*", SearchOption.AllDirectories);
    List<string> filePath = new List<string>();



    dataGridView1.Rows.Clear();
    try
    {
        foreach (string fileNames in fileDrive)
        {

            if (regEx.IsMatch(fileNames))
            {
                string fileNameOnly = Path.GetFileName(fileNames);
                string pathOnly = Path.GetDirectoryName(fileNames);

                DataGridViewRow dgr = new DataGridViewRow();
                filePath.Add(fileNames);
                dgr.CreateCells(dataGridView1);
                dgr.Cells[0].Value = pathOnly;
                dgr.Cells[1].Value = fileNameOnly;
                dataGridView1.Rows.Add(dgr);

                 \\I want to pass fileNames to my FileCleanup Method
                 \\I tried this:
               \\SanitizeFileNames sf = new SanitizeFileNames();
               \\sf.Add(fileNames); <-- this always gets an error..plus it is not an action i could find in intellisense


            }

            else
            {
                continue;
            }

        }
    }
    catch (Exception e)
    {
        StreamWriter sw = new StreamWriter(retPath + "ErrorLog.txt");
        sw.Write(e);

    }
}

Class 2’s code:

public class SanitizeFileNames
{

    public void FileCleanup(string fileNames)
    {
        string regPattern = " *[\\~#%&*{}/<>?|\"-]+ *";
        string replacement = "";
        Regex regExPattern = new Regex(regPattern);
    }

What i want to do in SanitizeFileNames is do a foreach through the FileNames & FilePath and replace invalid chars (as defined in my Regex pattern). So, something along the lines of this:

using (StreamWriter sw = new StreamWriter(@"S:\File_Renames.txt"))
{
    //Sanitize and remove invalid chars  
    foreach (string Files2 in filePath)
    {
        try
        {
            string filenameOnly = Path.GetFileName(Files2);
            string pathOnly = Path.GetDirectoryName(Files2);
            string sanitizedFilename = regEx.Replace(filenameOnly, replacement);
            string sanitized = Path.Combine(pathOnly, sanitizedFilename);
            sw.Write(sanitized + "\r\n");
            System.IO.File.Move(Files2, sanitized);
        }
        //error logging
        catch(Exception ex)
        {
            StreamWriter sw2 = new StreamWriter(@"S:\Error_Log.txt");
            sw2.Write("ERROR LOG");
            sw2.WriteLine(DateTime.Now.ToString() + ex + "\r\n");
            sw2.Flush();
            sw2.Close();
        }
    }
}

However, I’m having trouble passing the fileNames into my SanitizeFileNames class. Can anybody help me?

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    2026-05-15T10:31:12+00:00Added an answer on May 15, 2026 at 10:31 am
      dataGridView1.Rows.Clear();
            try
            {
                foreach (string fileNames in fileDrive)
                {
    
                    if (regEx.IsMatch(fileNames))
                    {
                        string fileNameOnly = Path.GetFileName(fileNames);
                        string pathOnly = Path.GetDirectoryName(fileNames);
    
                        DataGridViewRow dgr = new DataGridViewRow();
                        filePath.Add(fileNames);
                        dgr.CreateCells(dataGridView1);
                        dgr.Cells[0].Value = pathOnly;
                        dgr.Cells[1].Value = fileNameOnly;
                        dataGridView1.Rows.Add(dgr);
    
                        new SanitizeFileNames().FileCleanup(fileNames);
                    }
    
                    else
                    {
                        continue;
                    }
    
                }
            }
    
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