Question

I’m trying to find a way to buffer FileNames from a given directory in C#. By this I mean:

Given directory

C:/MyDir

Which contains files:

File1_orig.txt

File1_edited.txt

File2_orig.txt

File2_edited.txt

…

Filen_orig.txt

Filen_edited.txt

I want to store the filenames(not the whole filepath, just the filename, e.g. String[] filename = Filen_orig.txt) into temporary strings and run a simple comparison on them to see if they contain a target string.

I would like to pass the strings into:

while(STILL FILES IN DIRECTORY)
{
    string[] exFileName = {BUFFER FILENAME HERE}
    string[] words = exFileName.Split('_');
    string[] toCompare = "edited";
            bool result;
            foreach (string word in words)
            {
                Console.WriteLine(word);
                bool result = toCompare.Equals(word, StringComparison.OrdinalIgnoreCase);
                if (result)
                {
                    Console.WriteLine("success");
                }
            }
            Console.ReadLine();

To check to see if the file being examined is edited (*_edited.txt) or an original (*_original.txt), and, if the file is edited, further process the file.

Does anyone know how to automate a filepath read?

Thank you very much.

Answer 1

if you want to see if any files contain the _edited bit, you can use:

bool success = Directory.GetFiles(@"c:\MyDir").Any(p => p.Contains("_edited"));

I’m making a bit of a guess this is what you want because your code isn’t very clear (nor is your description)

Edit: to show all edited files:

            foreach(var file in Directory.GetFiles(@"c:\MyDir").Where(p => p.Contains("_edited")))
        {
            Console.WriteLine(" {0}: edited", file);
        }

Also, must be using “System.Linq”