I want to read in a text file but I only know a part of the filename. To be more specific, the format of the file is "FOO_yyyymmdd_hhmmss.txt" but when running my program, I will only know "FOO_yyyymmdd_" and ".txt". In other words, I want to read that file based on just the date, ignoring the "hhmmss" (time) part for I will not know the time of that file, only the date.
Here is part of what I have so far:
ArrayList al = new ArrayList();
string FileName = "FOO_" + DateTime.Now.ToString("yyyymmdd") + "_" ; //how do I correct this, keeping in mind that I need the time as well?
string InPath = @"\\myServer1\files\";
string OutPath = @"\\myServer2\files\";
string InFile = InPath + FileName;
string OutFile = OutPath + @"faceOut.txt";
using (StreamReader sr = new StreamReader(InFile))
{
string line;
while((line = sr.ReadLine()) != null)
{
al.Add(line);
}
sr.Close();
}
How can I read this file without knowing the whole string beforehand?
How about using a wildcard *
available with DirectoryInfo.EnumerateFiles
string FileName = new DirectoryInfo(@"\\myServer1\files\")
.EnumerateFiles(String.Format("FOO_{0:yyyymmdd}_*.txt", DateTime.Now))
.FirstOrDefault()?.FullName;
FileName == null
means that the file was not found
Note that the Null-Conditional Operator (?.) can only be used from C# 6.0 onwards
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