hello folks,
just wanna get some feedback from someone here who has more experience. :-)
i'm developing a small app that require searching for the highest index
within a directory.
i was thinking of comparing string.
not sure if this is the most efficient way to do it.
here's an example.......
on the FORM, there will be a TEXTBOX with filename.
e.g. testFile
within the directory, there could be several different files:
testFile_1.txt
testFile_2.txt
testFile_3.txt
myTest_54.txt
jay005.jpg
testFile_4.txt
document.doc
in the above sample test, the answer would be "testFile_4.txt ".
preferably, the code should ignore other files except those that starts with
"testFile". 5 2350
not sure why you need to do this...
Best way I can think of:
Use DirectoryInfo.G etFiles("testFi le*") to get a FileInfo array. I don't
believe that FileInfo inherits the IComparable interface, so I don't think
you can sort using the Array.Sort method. You could copy the filenames out
into a simple string array, sort, and pull off the last entry...
Note that
testFile_4
will come after
testFile_34
so if you want the highest number, you may want to make sure that the
numbers have leading zeros:
testFile_004
will always come before
testFile_034
Care to share why you need this? There may be a better way to do what you
are trying to do.
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news:97******** *************** ***********@mic rosoft.com... hello folks,
just wanna get some feedback from someone here who has more experience. :-)
i'm developing a small app that require searching for the highest index within a directory.
i was thinking of comparing string. not sure if this is the most efficient way to do it.
here's an example....... on the FORM, there will be a TEXTBOX with filename. e.g. testFile within the directory, there could be several different files:
testFile_1.txt testFile_2.txt testFile_3.txt myTest_54.txt jay005.jpg testFile_4.txt document.doc
in the above sample test, the answer would be "testFile_4.txt ". preferably, the code should ignore other files except those that starts with "testFile".
Ada,
You mean something as this?
\\\
DirectoryInfo di = new DirectoryInfo(@ "c:\");
FileSystemInfo[] dirs = di.GetFiles();
string[] str = new string[dirs.Length];
for (int i = 0;i < dirs.Length;i++ )
{str[i] = dirs[i].Name;}
Array.Sort(str) ;
MessageBox.Show (str[str.Length-1]);
///
I hope this helps?
Cor
Cor, thanks for the snippet.
according to your snippet, doesn't it create an array for all the files
inside that directory and not just the "testFile_x x"?
Nick, to answer your question....
it's a small exercise for myself. :-)
an application for this type of naming is a sequential graphic animation
files.
i'm doing this to avoid overwriting the existing file and resume sequence
from the highest index file.
can you elaborate why
testFile_4
comes after
testFile_34?
"Cor Ligthert" wrote: Ada,
You mean something as this?
\\\ DirectoryInfo di = new DirectoryInfo(@ "c:\"); FileSystemInfo[] dirs = di.GetFiles(); string[] str = new string[dirs.Length]; for (int i = 0;i < dirs.Length;i++ ) {str[i] = dirs[i].Name;} Array.Sort(str) ; MessageBox.Show (str[str.Length-1]); ///
I hope this helps?
Cor
Ada,
Yes however, Nick showed you already the overloaded constructor with the
(selection)
Cor
Hi Ada,
(I used to write code in the Ada programming language... ;-)
The reason that I asked about your intent for incrementing file names: if
you just needed a unique file name once, that you were going to delete when
you are done, and you didn't want to overwrite another application using
their own unique file name on the same computer, you could have used
Path.GetTempFil eName() which will return a unique name in the users
"Temporary Files" folder. Sounds like that isn't what you are doing. Nick, to answer your question.... it's a small exercise for myself. :-) an application for this type of naming is a sequential graphic animation files. i'm doing this to avoid overwriting the existing file and resume sequence from the highest index file.
can you elaborate why testFile_4 comes after testFile_34?
Because "testFile_3 4" is a string, not a number. If a string cannot be
converted to a number, there is no way to compare them as numbers. We
compare strings lexically (alphabetical order... kinda... see below). That
means we look at the first character in each string. If one is less than
the other (occurs earlier in the character table), then we stop because we
have found the "earlier" string. If the characters in that position are the
same, we move to the next position and compare.
In this case, the 10th character of testFile_4 is '4' while the 10th
character of testFile_34 is '3'. Since '3' comes before '4' in the
character table, then "testFile_3 4" comes before "testFile_4 ". That is why
I suggested that you would want to embed leading zeros in your number
field... In the character table, '0' comes before the rest of the digits, so
your alphabetical sort will be the same as a numeric sort (until you run out
of digits).
Important Note: in the character tables, All of the upper case characters
come before the first lower case character. Therefore, if you use a "case
sensitive sort" (the default), then "ZestFile" will come before "testFile"
even though in a dictionary, it wouldn't work that way. That's because the
capital 'Z' occurs before the lowercase 't'.
If you want to see what the character tables look like, visit http://www.unicode.org/charts/
Note that we are most familiar with the "Basic Latin" character set.
Another note: read the charts one column at a time (top to bottom, left to
right). I have no idea why they did that :-(.
There is a way around this, of course. You can tell the system to ignore
the case of the letters when sorting your strings.
I've included a snippet of text from an article on DevX.com:
<snippet>
The .NET Framework defines several comparer classes for you to use. One of
them, the CaseInsensitive Comparer class, allows you to sort strings by
ignoring their casing. So in this case, the .NET framework ignores the
String class' CompareTo method, and instead uses the rules defined in the
CaseInsensitive Comparer class. The following code illustrates this feature:
Dim aryLastNames() As String = {"sMiTh, ZULU", "smith, john&", "SMITH,
TerrY"}
Array.Sort(aryL astNames, New CaseInsensitive Comparer)
' aryLastNames order:
'
' smith, john
' SMITH, TerrY
' sMiTh, ZULU
</snippet>You can find the full article at: http://www.devx.com/dotnet/Article/21089I hope this helps,--
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