Why isn't my File.Move() working?
- by yeahumok
I'm not sure what exactly i'm doing wrong here...but i noticed that my File.Move() isn't renaming any files.
Also, does anybody know how in my 2nd loop, i'd be able to populate my .txt file with a list of the path AND sanitized file name?
using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Linq;
using System.Text;
using System.IO;
using System.Text.RegularExpressions;
namespace ConsoleApplication2
{
class Program
{
static void Main(string[] args)
{
//recurse through files. Let user press 'ok' to move onto next step
string[] files = Directory.GetFiles(@"C:\Documents and Settings\jane.doe\Desktop\~Test Folder for [SharePoint] %testing", "*.*", SearchOption.AllDirectories);
foreach (string file in files)
{
Console.Write(file + "\r\n");
}
Console.WriteLine("Press any key to continue...");
Console.ReadKey(true);
//End section
//Regex -- find invalid chars
string pattern = " *[\\~#%&*{}/<>?|\"-]+ *";
string replacement = " ";
Regex regEx = new Regex(pattern);
string[] fileDrive = Directory.GetFiles(@"C:\Documents and Settings\jane.doe\Desktop\~Test Folder for [SharePoint] %testing", "*.*", SearchOption.AllDirectories);
List<string> filePath = new List<string>();
//clean out file -- remove the path name so file name only shows
string result;
foreach(string fileNames in fileDrive)
{
result = Path.GetFileName(fileNames);
filePath.Add(result);
}
StreamWriter sw = new StreamWriter(@"C:\Documents and Settings\jane.doe\Desktop\~Test Folder for [SharePoint] %testing\File_Renames.txt");
//Sanitize and remove invalid chars
foreach(string Files2 in filePath)
{
try
{
string sanitized = regEx.Replace(Files2, replacement);
sw.Write(sanitized + "\r\n");
System.IO.File.Move(Files2, sanitized);
System.IO.File.Delete(Files2);
}
catch (Exception ex)
{
Console.Write(ex);
}
}
sw.Close();
}
}
}
I'm VERY new to C# and trying to write an app that recurses through a specific drive, finds invalid characters (as specified in the RegEx pattern), removes them from the filename and then write a .txt file that has the path name and the corrected filename.
Any ideas?
