basic (?) file copying question

[DoraC]

Hi,

I need to copy one group of files to a different directory, and was hoping to do this with something like "File.Copy". However - this does not seem to be meant to be... I've tried things like

File.Copy("C:\\dir1\\*.txt","C:\\dir2\\"

to no avail.. So - my question is, how in C# can I mass-copy one group of files identified (partially) by a meta-character into a different directory? This *seems* as though it would be a basic operation, but apparently not?

Thanks!
dora

 

[fellthor]

You can only move or copy one file at a time with this object.method. You could create an array of file name and loop through it passing the string to a FileInfo object.

The Common Dialog classes also have a FileNames property that allow the user to select a number of files.

File class is static class. If you need instance information then FileInfo also works create.