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Using FastZip to zip a directory, and only include certain file types ( file filtering)

I wonder whether there is a way to use fastzip to zip a directory, but include only certain file types. I am thinking about using something like:

    public static void ZipFiles(string DirectoryToZip, string ZipedFile, string fileFilter, string folderFilter) {
        FastZip fz = new FastZip();
        fz.CreateEmptyDirectories = true;
        fz.CreateZip(ZipedFile, DirectoryToZip, true, fileFilter, folderFilter);
    }

The only problem is that the fileFilter is given in string, not in arrays.

Any ideas?

Solution

  • I solved my own problem; it turns out that I just have to provide a regular expression string to filter the types I want.

    Here's an example to include only excel file, word file and xml file into the zip.

            FastZip fz = new FastZip();
        fz.CreateEmptyDirectories = true;

        fz.CreateZip(zipFile, prjDir, true, ".*\\.(xls|doc|xml)$", "");