C# Primer Plus

The FileInfo Class

When you create a new FileInfo object, you must associate this object with a file by passing a string representation of a filename to the FileInfo constructor. This filename can either represent an already existing file, or a non-existing file that you want to create. We will look at how you can create a new file with FileInfo later.

Suppose that C:\MyTestFiles\MyFairytale.txt is an already existing file. The following line (taken from line 10 in Listing 22.1)

FileInfo existingFile = new FileInfo(@"C:\MyTestFiles\MyFairytale.txt");

creates a FileInfo object called existingFile that represents the file MyFairytale.txt located in the C:\MyTestFiles directory.

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