Is there a way to get a list of file names from within a directory

[jpabich]

I want to display a list of filenames that exist in a certain
directory. How do I go about loading this list?

[Dan Manges]

jpabich wrote:

I want to display a list of filenames that exist in a certain
directory. How do I go about loading this list?

Look into:
System.IO.Directory
(http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/lib...directory.aspx)
System.IO.DirectoryInfo
(http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/sys...ctoryinfo.aspx)

string[] files = System.IO.Directory.GetFiles(@"c:\directory");

Dan Manges

[Michael Nemtsev]

See DirectoryInfo/FileInfo classes in MSDN

public static void Main()
{
// Create a reference to the current directory.
DirectoryInfo di = new DirectoryInfo(Environment.CurrentDirectory);
// Create an array representing the files in the current directory.
FileInfo[] fi = di.GetFiles();
Console.WriteLine("The following files exist in the current
directory:");
// Print out the names of the files in the current directory.
foreach (FileInfo fiTemp in fi)
Console.WriteLine(fiTemp.Name);
}
}

"jpabich" wrote:

I want to display a list of filenames that exist in a certain
directory. How do I go about loading this list?

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[Bjorn Abelli]

"jpabich" <jp*****@eisincorporated.com> wrote...

I want to display a list of filenames that exist in a certain
directory. How do I go about loading this list?

If it's just in order to "display" the list of filenames, you can simply do:

DirectoryInfo dirInfo = new DirectoryInfo("directoryPath");
FileInfo[] fileInfos = dirInfo.GetFiles();

foreach (FileInfo fi in fileInfos)
{
Console.WriteLine(fi);
}

If you want to display it in some other way, you can use each FileInfo as
you like, e.g. to extract only the short filenames as strings, as the above
will display the full path of the files.

/// Bjorn A