BarbezDotEu.FileIO

Misc. logic related to files and IO.

Contents

• DirectoryDumper
  • ListFilesInFile(directory,fileName)
• DirectoryMerger
  • MergeFilesFromSubDirectoryIntoRootDirectory(rootDirectory,deleteSubDirectoriesOnFinish)
• DirectorySplitter
  • FillTextToLength(text,desiredLength,filler)
  • MoveFilesIntoSubDirectories(rootDirectory,itemsPerSubFolder)
• DiskIO
  • SaveText(filename,text,directory,timestampPrefix)
  • WriteLine(path,line)

DirectoryDumper type

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Basic, static class for "dumping"/listing information for a given folder/directory.

ListFilesInFile(directory,fileName) method

Creates or overwrites a text file containing a list of fully qualified file names found inside a given directory.

Parameters

Name	Type	Description
directory	System.String	The directory to investigate.
fileName	System.String	The text file to write the information to.

DirectoryMerger type

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Basic class implementing static methods pertaining to merging of folders/directories.

MergeFilesFromSubDirectoryIntoRootDirectory(rootDirectory,deleteSubDirectoriesOnFinish) method

Moves all files, found in any subdirectories a given root directory, into the root directory.

Parameters

Name	Type	Description
rootDirectory	System.String	The root directory where all files in its subdirectories should be moved into.
deleteSubDirectoriesOnFinish	System.Boolean	Set to true to delete the actual subdirectories after all files have been moved. Set to false to keep the (potentially empty) subdirectories.

DirectorySplitter type

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Splits (the contents of) a directory.

FillTextToLength(text,desiredLength,filler) method

Prefixes a text with a filler from which a string with a certain length is returned.

Returns

The given text prefixed with a filler from which a string with a certain length is returned. Returns the initial text if it is longer than the provided length.

Parameters

Name	Type	Description
text	System.String	The text to prefix.
desiredLength	System.Int64	The desired length of the returned string.
filler	System.Char	The filler to use in prefixing the text.

MoveFilesIntoSubDirectories(rootDirectory,itemsPerSubFolder) method

In a best-effort kind of a way, moves files in a directory into subdirectories created on the fly.

Parameters

Name	Type	Description
rootDirectory	System.String	The relative or absolute path to the directory to search. This string is not case-sensitive.
itemsPerSubFolder	System.Int32	The maximum number of items per subdirectory.

DiskIO type

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Basic class implementing static methods pertaining to file persisting to disk.

SaveText(filename,text,directory,timestampPrefix) method

Saves a given text to a given filename.

Returns

The fully-qualified path of where the file was created.

Parameters

Name	Type	Description
filename	System.String	The name of the file to store.
text	System.String	The textual contents of the file.
directory	System.String	The directory where to store the file on disk.
timestampPrefix	System.DateTime	The DateTime to prepend the given filename with, if any.

WriteLine(path,line) method

Appends a line of text to a text file.

Parameters

Name	Type	Description
path	System.String	The full file path (i.e. incl. folder and file name + extension) to append the line to.
line	System.String	The line to append to the text file.

Author

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