I have an FTP server which stores files sent/uploaded by the client in a certain folder. The client will upload 3 files with same names but different extensions. For example,the client will send file1.ext1,file1.ext2 and file1.ext3. I am looking for a piece of code which will help me find files with same names("file1") and then zip them. Any help is appreciated. I have written this code which gets the name of all the files in the folder:
string path = "somepath";
String[] FileNames = Directory.GetFiles(path);
This is fairly simple to do:
string path = "somepath";
String[] FileNames = Directory.GetFiles(path);
You can use LINQ to group the files by their name, without extension:
var fileGroups = from f in FileNames
group f by Path.GetFileNameWithoutExtension(f) into g
select new { Name = g.Key, FileNames = g };
// each group will have files with the
// same name and different extensions
foreach (var g in fileGroups)
{
// initialize zip file
foreach (var fname in g.FileNames)
{
// add fname to zip
}
// close zip file
}
The task isn't too much more difficult if you don't have LINQ. First, you want to sort the files:
Array.Sort(FileNames);
Now, you have a list of files, sorted by file name. So you'll have, for example:
file1.ext1
file1.ext2
file1.ext3
file2.ext1
file2.ext2
etc...
Then just go through the list, adding files with the same base name to zip files, as below. Note that I don't know how you're creating your zip files, so I just made up a simple ZipFile
class. You'll of course need to replace that with whatever you're using.
string lastFileName = string.Empty;
string zipFileName = null;
ZipFile zipFile = null;
for (int i = 0; i < FileNames.Length; ++i)
{
string baseFileName = Path.GetFileNameWithoutExtension(FileNames[i]);
if (baseFileName != lastFileName)
{
// end of zip file
if (zipFile != null)
{
// close zip file
ZipFile.Close();
}
// create new zip file
zipFileName = baseFileName + ".zip";
zipFile = new ZipFile(zipFileName);
lastFileName = baseFileName;
}
// add this file to the zip
zipFile.Add(FileNames[i]);
}
// be sure to close the last zip file
if (zipFile != null)
{
zipFile.Close();
}
I don't know if the Compact Framework has the Path.GetFileNameWithoutExtension
method. If not, then you can get the name without extension by:
string filename = @"c:\dir\subdir\file.ext";
int dotPos = filename.LastIndexOf('.');
int slashPos = filename.LastIndexOf('\\');
string ext;
string name;
int start = (slashPos == -1) ? 0 : slashPos+1;
int length;
if (dotPos == -1 || dotPos < slashPos)
length = filename.Length - start;
else
length = dotPos - start;
string nameWithoutExtension = filename.Substring(start, length);