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Enumerate Files

Returns an enumerable collection of full file names that match a search pattern (or collection of patterns) and enumeration options in a specified path (or collection of paths).

Properties
Name Description
DirectoryPath The relative or absolute path (or collection of paths) to the directory (or directories) to search.
Exclusions Excludes from the enumeration the files with any of the specified attributes.
Result An enumerable collection of the full names (including paths) for the files in the directory specified by path and that match the specified search pattern and option.
SearchOption Specifies whether the search operation should include only the current directory or should include all subdirectories.
SearchPattern The search string to match against the names of files in path. This parameter can contain a combination of valid literal path and wildcard (* and ?) characters, but it doesn't support regular expressions. It supports a string or a collection of strings. Default value is all files (*.*). The features can be extended by SearchPatternMode property.
SearchPatternMode Native: applies the search pattern using the native standards. Extended: allows the use of an additional wildcard (!) to create negative patterns, e.g: (!*.txt) means to match everything except (*.txt) files. Complete: It also allows negative patterns and perform the testing in the full file path instead of only in the file name.
Usage

Returns a IEnumerable<string> with all file paths from the specified directory or directories.

Use the SearchPattern to filter the files by its name or extension.