How to delete files in a folder?

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Hey guys, please help.
If I have in my current app folder some files like f1.txt,f2.txt, f3.txt and I want to delete all those files ending with .txt, how can I do this?
I know about the File.Delete method, but how can i use it here?

Posted 10-May-10 2:15am

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Arun Jacob · Answer 1 · 2010-05-10T02:19:00

Solution 1

You can use Directory.GetFiles for filtering and getting all the files and then you can delete by using File.Delete.

sample from MSDN,

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.io.file.delete.aspx?PHPSESSID=tn8k5...[^]

Posted 10-May-10 2:19am

Arun Jacob

#realJSOP · Answer 2 · 2010-05-10T02:20:00

Solution 2

Something like this:

using System.IO;

string[] files = Directory.GetFiles(myPath, "*.txt", SearchOption.TopDirectoryOnly);
foreach (string file in files)
{
    File.Delete(file);
}

Posted 10-May-10 2:20am

#realJSOP