Name
Directory.GetFiles Method
Class
System.IO.Directory
Syntax
Directory.GetFiles(path
[,searchpattern
])
-
path
(required; String) A valid path to a directory
-
searchpattern
(optional; String) A file specification, including the wildcard characters * and ?
Return Value
An array of strings, each element of which contains the name of a file
Description
Returns the names of the files in a specified directory
Rules at a Glance
path
can be either an absolute path (a complete path from the root directory to the directory whose filenames are to be retrieved) or a relative path (starting from the current directory to the directory whose filenames are to be retrieved).path
can be either a path on the local system, the path of a mapped network drive, or a UNC path.path
cannot contain wildcard characters.If
searchpattern
is specified, the method returns only those files whose names match the string, which can contain wildcard characters. Otherwise, the function returns the names of all the files in thepath
directory.If the directory specified by
path
has no files, or if no files matchsearchpattern
, an empty array is returned.
Example
The following code displays all files in c:\ that have the extension .txt:
Dim sFiles( ) As String Dim i As Integer sFiles = Directory.GetFiles("c:\", "*.txt") For i = 0 To UBound(sFiles) Console.WriteLine(sFiles(i)) Next
Programming Tips and Gotchas
Since GetFiles can return an empty array, you can prevent an array-access error in either of two ways: you can iterate ...
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