How to Open 2 Files one after the other using For LOOP

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How do I Open files of the same extension one by one using a for loop

I want to display the content in them in a message box one by one using a for loop.

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Posted 24-Apr-11 2:28am

rahuliyer95

Updated 24-Apr-11 2:37am

Ed Nutting

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Ed Nutting 24-Apr-11 8:38am

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Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov · Answer 1 · 2011-04-24T07:23:00

Solution 2

If would be easy, but there is one problem with "files of the same extension" and Directory.GetFiles — it does not work as one can expect.
You will find the explanation and the resolution here:
Directory.Get.Files search pattern problem[^].

For reading the file, use System.IO.StreamReader, in particular, System.IO.StreamReader.ReadToEnd.

—SA

Posted 24-Apr-11 7:23am

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Ed Nutting 24-Apr-11 15:02pm

Good answer, my 5.

Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 24-Apr-11 21:06pm

Thank you very much,
--SA

Ed Nutting · Answer 2 · 2011-04-24T02:41:00

Solution 1

This is a relatively simple answer and I believe we've had this one before, a simple search would get you the answer:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb513869.aspx[^]

This can easily be modified with a simple if block that checks the FileInfo Extension property.

Hope this helps, try searching next time,

Ed :)

Edit: A few VB solutions I found as well :
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4607912/visual-basic-iterate-a-folders-files[^]
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/306666[^]
http://www.dreamincode.net/forums/topic/118490-looping-through-files/[^]

Posted 24-Apr-11 2:41am

Ed Nutting

Updated 24-Apr-11 2:49am

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Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 24-Apr-11 13:25pm

This is not as simple as it looks -- Directory.GetFiles does not work as it should -- a know problem which needs a workaround. My 4.
Please see explanation and resolution in my Solution.
--SA

Ed Nutting 24-Apr-11 15:01pm

Interesting, I have never noticed that problem before though a simple workaround would surely be just to test for exact extension match on the filenames returned?

Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 24-Apr-11 21:11pm

If would be; but the codelet you can see in my answer provides the same interface as you would have with GetFiles, with a fix. I used to do a mistake of not taking this problem into account; Abhishek Sur is the one credited for pointing out this problem.
--SA