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Get Files / Get Folders methods

   

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using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.IO;
using System.Text;
using System.CodeDom.Compiler;
using System.Text.RegularExpressions;

namespace crudwork.Utilities
{
  /// <summary>
  /// File Utility
  /// </summary>
  public static class FileUtil
  {

    #region Enums
    /// <summary>
    /// File order type for sorting list of filenames
    /// </summary>
    public enum FileOrderType
    {
      /// <summary>
      /// No sort
      /// </summary>
      None = 0,

      /// <summary>
      /// Sort by filename
      /// </summary>
      Filename = 1,

      /// <summary>
      /// Sort by extension
      /// </summary>
      Extension = 2,

      /// <summary>
      /// Sort by the size
      /// </summary>
      Size = 3,

      /// <summary>
      /// Sort by last modified timestamp
      /// </summary>
      LastWriteTime = 4,

      /// <summary>
      /// Sort by file creation timestamp
      /// </summary>
      CreationDate = 5,
    }
    #endregion
    #region GetFiles / GetFolders methods
    /// <summary>
    /// Shorten the folder name
    /// </summary>
    /// <param name="fileList"></param>
    /// <param name="path"></param>
    /// <returns></returns>
    public static string[] MakeRelativePath(string[] fileList, string path)
    {
      List<String> results = new List<string>();

      for (int i = 0; i < fileList.Length; i++)
      {
        string file = fileList[i];
        results.Add(file.Replace(path + "\\", ""));
      }

      return results.ToArray();
    }


    /// <summary>
    /// sort the file list based on the given order type
    /// </summary>
    /// <param name="fileList"></param>
    /// <param name="fileOrderType"></param>
    /// <returns></returns>
    public static string[] OrderFileBy(string[] fileList, FileOrderType fileOrderType)
    {
      string[] orderKey = new string[fileList.Length];
      string[] orderVal = new string[fileList.Length];

      //int maskLength = StringUtil.MaxLength(fileList);
      int maskLength = 100;
      string maskFormat = String.Format(@"{{0,{0}}}", maskLength);

      for (int i = 0; i < fileList.Length; i++)
      {
        string filename = fileList[i];
        string orderByKey;

        if (!File.Exists(filename))
          throw new FileNotFoundException(filename);

        FileInfo fi = new FileInfo(filename);

        switch (fileOrderType)
        {
          case FileOrderType.None:
            orderByKey = "";
            break;

          case FileOrderType.Filename:
            {
              orderByKey = String.Format(maskFormat, fi.Name);
            }
            break;

          case FileOrderType.LastWriteTime:
            {
              DateTime dt = fi.LastWriteTime;
              orderByKey = String.Format("{0:0000}{1:00}{2:00}{3:00}{4:00}{5:00}{6:000}",
                dt.Year,
                dt.Month,
                dt.Day,
                dt.Hour,
                dt.Minute,
                dt.Second,
                dt.Millisecond
                );
            }
            break;

          default:
            throw new ArgumentOutOfRangeException("not supported: " + fileOrderType);
        }

        orderKey[i] = orderByKey;
        orderVal[i] = fileList[i];
      }

      if (fileOrderType != FileOrderType.None)
      {
        Array.Sort(orderKey, orderVal);
      }

      return orderVal;
    }
    #endregion
   }
}

   
    
    
  








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