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SearchOption Enumeration
Visual Studio 2010
Specifies whether to search the current directory, or the current directory and all subdirectories.
Assembly: mscorlib (in mscorlib.dll)
The following code example lists all of the directories and files that begin with the letter "c" in "c:\". In this example, the SearchOption is used to specify not to search all subdirectories.
using System; using System.IO; class App { public static void Main() { // Specify the directory you want to manipulate. string path = @"c:\"; string searchPattern = "c*"; DirectoryInfo di = new DirectoryInfo(path); DirectoryInfo[] directories = di.GetDirectories(searchPattern, SearchOption.TopDirectoryOnly); FileInfo[] files = di.GetFiles(searchPattern, SearchOption.TopDirectoryOnly); Console.WriteLine( "Directories that begin with the letter \"c\" in {0}", path); foreach (DirectoryInfo dir in directories) { Console.WriteLine( "{0,-25} {1,25}", dir.FullName, dir.LastWriteTime); } Console.WriteLine(); Console.WriteLine( "Files that begin with the letter \"c\" in {0}", path); foreach (FileInfo file in files) { Console.WriteLine( "{0,-25} {1,25}", file.Name, file.LastWriteTime); } } // Main() } // App()
Windows 7, Windows Vista SP1 or later, Windows XP SP3, Windows XP SP2 x64 Edition, Windows Server 2008 (Server Core not supported), Windows Server 2008 R2 (Server Core supported with SP1 or later), Windows Server 2003 SP2
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