Looping through directories

[Mark]

I am trying to loop through 2 separate directories (using the Dir) at the
same time but it seems to get confused and is mixing the files from both
directories. I tried to use the My.Computer.Get files method but I can't get
it to work other than in the myDocuments directory. It also returns the full
path when I only wnat the file name.

[gene kelley]

Re: Looping through directories

On Sun, 2 Jul 2006 15:12:01 -0700, Mark
<Mark@discussio ns.microsoft.co mwrote:

>I am trying to loop through 2 separate directories (using the Dir) at the
>same time but it seems to get confused and is mixing the files from both
>directories. I tried to use the My.Computer.Get files method but I can't get
>it to work other than in the myDocuments directory. It also returns the full
>path when I only wnat the file name.

This example gets all the files in each of two directories and
populates two list boxes with the respective filenames:

Imports System.IO

Private Sub Button1_Click(B yVal sender As System.Object, _
ByVal e As System.EventArg s) Handles Button1.Click
Dim dir1 As New DirectoryInfo(" C:\Windows")
Dim FoundFiles1 As FileInfo() = dir1.GetFiles()
Dim fiTemp As FileInfo
For Each fiTemp In FoundFiles1
Me.ListBox1.Ite ms.Add(fiTemp)
Next fiTemp

Dim dir2 As New DirectoryInfo(" C:\Windows\Syst em32")
Dim FoundFiles2 As FileInfo() = dir2.GetFiles()
For Each fiTemp In FoundFiles2
Me.ListBox2.Ite ms.Add(fiTemp)
Next fiTemp


End Sub

Gene

[Phill W.]

Re: Looping through directories

Mark wrote:

I am trying to loop through 2 separate directories (using the Dir) at the
same time but it seems to get confused and is mixing the files from both
directories.

Dir uses an internal "pointer" to keep track of where it is within the
current directory. You /can't/ "scan" two directories (or
sub-directories) at the same time.

Read up on the Directory class, particularly the GetFiles method(s).

For Each sFile As String _
In Directory.GetFi les( "path", "*.*" )
Debug.WriteLine ( sFile )
Next

HTH,
Phill W.