C# String Operations - Question

[Rhonda Tipton]

Hello all.
Is there a command that can be used to change the string "New York
Collection Letters.pdf" to "New York Collection Letters_200509.pdf"? (right
or variation of substring)

Basically what I have been tasked to do is copy a file from one place to
another changing the name of the file at the same time which may sound easy,
but I am very new to .net. I have figured out how to copy a file in C#
and how to get the year and the month from the current date. I just can't
figure out how to insert the year and month at the end of the file name.

Any help is greatly appreciated.

Rhonda

[Morten Wennevik]

Hi Rhonda,

Sure is, you can use String.Insert. To find the position to insert at use Path.GetFileNameWithoutExtension or subtract the length of Path.GetExtension.
On Sun, 25 Sep 2005 19:17:26 +0200, Rhonda Tipton <Rt*******@excite.com> wrote:

Hello all.
Is there a command that can be used to change the string "New York
Collection Letters.pdf" to "New York Collection Letters_200509.pdf"? (right
or variation of substring)

Basically what I have been tasked to do is copy a file from one place to
another changing the name of the file at the same time which may sound easy,
but I am very new to .net. I have figured out how to copy a file in C#
and how to get the year and the month from the current date. I just can't
figure out how to insert the year and month at the end of the file name.

Any help is greatly appreciated.

Rhonda

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Happy coding!
Morten Wennevik [C# MVP]

[Chris Taylor]

Hi,

You could use code like the following

string filename = "New York Collection Letters.pdf";
string newFilename = string.Format("{0}_{1}{2}",
Path.GetFileNameWithoutExtension(filename),
DateTime.Now.ToString("yyyyMM"),
Path.GetExtension(filename));

I used string.Format, you could also just use straight string concatenation
Hope this helps

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Chris Taylor
http://dotnetjunkies.com/weblog/chris.taylor
"Rhonda Tipton" <Rt*******@excite.com> wrote in message
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Hello all.
Is there a command that can be used to change the string "New York
Collection Letters.pdf" to "New York Collection Letters_200509.pdf"?
(right or variation of substring)

Basically what I have been tasked to do is copy a file from one place to
another changing the name of the file at the same time which may sound
easy, but I am very new to .net. I have figured out how to copy a file
in C# and how to get the year and the month from the current date. I just
can't figure out how to insert the year and month at the end of the file
name.

Any help is greatly appreciated.

Rhonda