.NET - C# - Basics - Examples - Directory IO and DateTime Parsing

Revision: 60030

at October 17, 2012 08:51 by denakitan

Initial Code

string directoryPath = string.Empty;

try
{
	// suppose that the sub-directories of directoryPath contain Ghibli movies information, each directory is named after the release date of the particular movie, in the format yyyyMMdd
	directoryPath = ConfigurationManager.AppSettings["DirectoryPath"];
	string[] subDirectories = Directory.GetDirectories(directoryPath);

	foreach (string directory in subDirectories)
	{
		string currentDirectory = directory.Substring(directory.LastIndexOf('\\') + 1);

		try
		{
			// parsing the directory name to create a DateTime object
			DateTime releaseDate = DateTime.ParseExact(currentDirectory, "yyyyMMdd", new CultureInfo("en-US", false));
			
			// getting the month name from the month number
			string monthName = CultureInfo.CurrentCulture.DateTimeFormat.GetMonthName(releaseDate.Month);
			Console.WriteLine(string.Format("Found a movie that was released on {0}, {1}.", monthName, releaseDate.Year));
			
		}
		catch (FormatException)
		{
			// could not parse due to the format of directory name
			continue;
		}
		catch(Exception ex)
		{
			Console.WriteLine(ex.Message);
		}
	}
}
catch (UnauthorizedAccessException uaex)
{
	Console.WriteLine(string.Format("Access to {0} was denied. Error message: {1}", directoryPath, uaex.Message));
}
catch (Exception ex)
{
	Console.WriteLine(ex.Message);
}

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Initial Description

Example of the usage of Directory IO class and the parsing of strings to DateTime.

Initial Title

.NET - C# - Basics - Examples - Directory IO and DateTime Parsing

Initial Tags

Net, directory, c#

Initial Language

C#

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