Directory.GetFileSystemEntries Method (String, String)

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Returns an array of file system entries matching the specified search criteria.

Namespace: System.IO
Assembly: mscorlib (in mscorlib.dll)

Syntax

Public Shared Function GetFileSystemEntries ( _
    path As String, _
    searchPattern As String _
) As String()

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

searchPattern
Type: System..::.String
The search string to match against the names of files in path. The searchPattern parameter cannot end in two periods ("..") or contain two periods ("..") followed by DirectorySeparatorChar or AltDirectorySeparatorChar.

Type: array<System..::.String>[]()[]
A String array of file system entries matching the search criteria.

Exception	Condition
UnauthorizedAccessException	The caller does not have the required permission.
ArgumentException	path is a zero-length string, contains only white space, or contains one or more invalid characters. -or- searchPattern does not contain a valid pattern.
ArgumentNullException	path or searchPattern is nullNothingnullptra null reference (Nothing in Visual Basic).
PathTooLongException	The specified path, file name, or both exceed the system-defined maximum length. For example, on Windows-based platforms, paths must be less than 248 characters and file names must be less than 260 characters.
IOException	path is a file name.
DirectoryNotFoundException	The specified path is invalid (for example, it is on an unmapped drive).