Little program to move to a specific folder a text file based on a specific content

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Hi,

I'm a beginner with C# and I have to create a little program that would open a text file search for a specific string and if that string is found to move the file to a specific folder. I have many different string and folder location to move the file too.

what would be the best way to do so ?

thanks for your help

Marc

What I have tried:

I didn't try nothing yet cause I don't know where to start for this.

Posted 27-Feb-20 3:07am

Marc_Moi

Updated 27-Feb-20 3:13am

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Richard MacCutchan · Accepted Answer · 2020-02-27T03:14:00

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The main components you will need would probably include:
OpenFileDialog Class (System.Windows.Forms) | Microsoft Docs[^] for theuser to locate the source file. Unless it will be from a fixed location.

StreamReader Class (System.IO) | Microsoft Docs[^] to read the source text file.

File.Move Method (System.IO) | Microsoft Docs[^]

Posted 27-Feb-20 3:14am

Richard MacCutchan

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Maciej Los 27-Feb-20 9:26am

Short And To The Point!
The shortest tutorial i've ever seen ;)

Richard MacCutchan 27-Feb-20 9:36am

Hey, I can write a shorter one if you need it. :))

Maciej Los 27-Feb-20 9:42am

:laugh:
:thumbsup:

Marc_Moi 27-Feb-20 9:42am

Thanks for your quick response. Yes it's a fixed location my EDI software is dropping all the file in the same folder but since there's different partnership I need to send the file to the good AS2 folder to send the file. I have many files at the same time that goes to different folder. where I was working before they were using a config.ini file to enter the ID'S and the folder to send it to but I don,t know how to do that. I need to be able to add new one has I get new customer I can't redoo the programm everytime.

Richard MacCutchan 27-Feb-20 9:48am

You should not need to redo the program if you use a settings file so you can choose where to find the files and where to store them based on application settings.