How to get a text file name from the application start up folder in vb.net

[selvialagar]

Hi............. .

I need to extract a textfile (.txt) file alone from the application startup path. That is I stored a text file in d:\text\inputfi le.txt. The folder contains a text file.but i don't know the file name . Now i have to find the folder whiich contains a text file. If the folder contains a text file, i will take that for processing.Supp ose if the folder does not contains the text file, i will show the openfiledialog to the user. From that he can select a text file from any other path. How can i extract the text file from the folder...Plz give me some suggesstions..

[r035198x]

Do you know how to list the files in a given directory?
What if there are lots of .txt files in the startup directory? Which one would be chosen?

[Curtis Rutland]

Using the System.IO.Direc toryInfo class, you can get all files in a directory, as well as recursively searching it's subdirectories as well. You can apply a filter to your search to just search for *.txt.

[selvialagar]

Thank You for your reply.I got it.