Analysing Subdirectories using GetDirectories or GetFiles

[Shake412]

Is there any way of analysing a directory using the Directory.GetDirectories class and returning all levels of sub directories as well as the top level?

And/or geting all the files when using the Directory.GetFiles class?

Is the only way to do this, by looping through the directories returned by Directory.GetDirectories and keep moving down a level until there are no further directories?

Any pointers would be welcom

Thanks

 

[chrissie1]

http://www.vbcity.com/forums/faq.asp?fid=15&cat=System#TID19980

this will give you an idea of what you want.

Christiaan Baes
Belgium

If you want to get an answer read this FAQ faq796-2540
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[Shake412]

Thanks for that. I never knew that you could call a procedure from within that very same proceedure. Is that new to .Net or has it always been part of VB.

Thanks again

 

[bboffin]

It's called Recursion and has always been a part of VB (at least VB5 and VB6 as that's all I've ever used) as well as most other languages (C, C++, Pascal etc)

However if the nesting is very deep you may run out of stack space so keep the size of any parameters to the function to a minimum (e.g. don't use a path name) as well as keeping variable use within the function to a minimum as well.

Old joke:
Dictionary definition of Recursion:
see Recursion

Regards


Bob Boffin