Search File in a Directory

Following fucntion will take 2 arguments FileName to Search and Directory Name where to search, it will search all file those names starts with File Name passed

Explained the code inline


public List<string> SearchDirectory(string FileName, string DirectoryName)
{
//Declare a List of Strings for Returning File Names
List<string> strFileNames = new List<string>();
try
{
//Get the Directory Info using Directory Name
DirectoryInfo dirInfor = new DirectoryInfo(DirectoryName);
// Get all files whose names starts with FileName Passed
FileInfo[] filesInfo = dirInfor.GetFiles(FileName +
"*", SearchOption.TopDirectoryOnly);
//Loop through all the files found and add to
//List and return them
foreach (FileInfo fi in filesInfo)
{
strFileNames.Add(fi.FullName);
}
}
catch (Exception ex)
{
MessageBox.Show(ex.Message);
}

return strFileNames;
}


Testing the above function


private void button1_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
//Open the folder Browser Dialog for Selecting the directory
// and search text from a Text box
folderBrowserDialog1.ShowDialog();
//Shows the no of files found the directory
MessageBox.Show(SearchDirectory(textBox1.Text,
folderBrowserDialog1.SelectedPath).Count.ToString()
+ " Files found");
}


Hope this helps.


SatishKumar J
Microsoft MVP(ASP.NET)


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