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[dainiuxxx]

Hi,

I`m just wondering if it`s of any use of asking anyone here to help a total rookie with his first project?
I have watched and read quite a bit already, and have bits of semi working code for my project.

Basically it`s a file operator app,
1. It should open a file(A.*) read some bytes store them, //a GUID if you will, i.e FFE742A19139AF10

2. Open another folder and look for a file who`s name partially contains the bytes from the file (A), ffe742a19139af10e1a452b7b4a987a3 firstMip2.chunk
if the file is present make a copy of it and save to file`s (A.*) folder.

I have got the 1st part working, now my problem is how do I setup search for a file using that GUID.

Here`s the code [url]http://pastebin.com/KjVgUFv0[/url]

Anyone could help me with this? Or maybe point me to an existing project that I could learn from?

Thanks

[Cush]

If I understand what you want to do correctly, say you had these two string variables:

fileName = 'ffe742a19139af10e1a452b7b4a987a3 firstMip2.chunk'

and

partialGUID = 'FFE742A19139AF10'

You could say fileName.Contains(partialGUID.ToLower()) which would return true if the filename contained your string.

If your main concern finding the file names in a folder, you can do something similar this:

string partialGUID = "FFE742A19139AF10"
string filepath = **Your saved files directory path**;
string[] files = Directory.GetFiles(filepath, "*.txt", SearchOption.AllDirectories);

foreach (string s in files)
{
    if (s.Contains(partialGUID.ToLower()) 
    {
        File.Copy(s, **Target file/location**);
    }
}

Also remember that Google/MSDN are a coders best friend. I got most of the above code just by searching "c# get all files in a folder"

[Tamschi]

s.ToLower().Contains(...), Directory.GetFiles(...) gives the stored capitalisation.

[dainiuxxx]

Thanks guys I`ve most of it working, now I need to expand the features.

Thanks again guys.