Directory.GetDirectories Method (String, String)

DirectoryGetDirectories Method (String, String)

Returns the names of subdirectories (including their paths) that match the specified search pattern in the specified directory.

Namespace: Alphaleonis.Win32.Filesystem
Assembly: AlphaFS (in AlphaFS.dll) Version: 2.0

Syntax

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public static string[] GetDirectories(
	string path,
	string searchPattern
)

Public Shared Function GetDirectories ( 
	path As String,
	searchPattern As String
) As String()

public:
static array<String^>^ GetDirectories(
	String^ path, 
	String^ searchPattern
)

static member GetDirectories : 
        path : string * 
        searchPattern : string -> string[]

Parameters

path

Type: SystemString
The directory to search.

searchPattern

Type: SystemString

The search string to match against the names of directories in path. This parameter can contain a

combination of valid literal path and wildcard (WildcardStarMatchAll and WildcardQuestion)

characters, but does not support regular expressions.

Return Value

Type: String
An array of the full names (including paths) of the subdirectories that match the search pattern in the specified directory, or an empty array if no directories are found.

Exceptions

Exception	Condition
ArgumentException	The path parameter contains invalid characters, is empty, or contains only white spaces.
ArgumentNullException

Remarks

The EnumerateDirectories and GetDirectories methods differ as follows: When you use EnumerateDirectories, you can start enumerating the collection of names before the whole collection is returned; when you use GetDirectories, you must wait for the whole array of names to be returned before you can access the array. Therefore, when you are working with many files and directories, EnumerateDirectories can be more efficient.

Reference

Directory Class

GetDirectories Overload

Alphaleonis.Win32.Filesystem Namespace