Directory.GetFiles of certain extension
If you would like to do your filtering in LINQ, you can do it like this:
var ext = new List<string> { "jpg", "gif", "png" };
var myFiles = Directory
.EnumerateFiles(dir, "*.*", SearchOption.AllDirectories)
.Where(s => ext.Contains(Path.GetExtension(s).TrimStart(".").ToLowerInvariant()));
Now ext
contains a list of allowed extensions; you can add or remove items from it as necessary for flexible filtering.
Doesn't the Directory.GetFiles(String, String)
overload already do that? You would just do Directory.GetFiles(dir, "*.jpg", SearchOption.AllDirectories)
If you want to put them in a list, then just replace the "*.jpg"
with a variable that iterates over a list and aggregate the results into an overall result set. Much clearer than individually specifying them. =)
Something like...
foreach(String fileExtension in extensionList){
foreach(String file in Directory.GetFiles(dir, fileExtension, SearchOption.AllDirectories)){
allFiles.Add(file);
}
}
(If your directories are large, using EnumerateFiles
instead of GetFiles
can potentially be more efficient)