How Do I Do This

[r_james14]

Hi There,

Proberly a really simple request but im desperate for help none the same lol,

I need to write some code that, takes filenames from a folder, and displays them in an order in a list. (Im using Visual Studio btw) lol.

The file names are in the format of

bghtyhgfr5674456_120411_3215.

The last four digits the time, middle set the date. Currently my code can read these file names and saves them as strings however i need to display them in time/date order, most recent first.

What is the best way to go about this?

Thanks in advance
James

[ddanbe]

I should use the string split methodand split on the underscore and also sheck out the members of the DateTime struct.

[arunkumars]

the best option would be to use the string split method as ddanbe suggested,
when you do so, instead of an array size of 3 that you expect it to be, you would also get a empty string array at index 0, may be u can use the trim method or make sure you handle that in the loop.

[Mitja Bonca]

bghtyhgfr5674456_120411_3215.

The last four digits the time, middle set the date.

How is 3215 the time?? What it represents? Seconds?
Because 32hours and 15 minutes cannot be in one day!

[cfwebdeveloper]

Yeah 3215 seems a bit off for time.

[arunkumars]

it could be 3 hrs, 21 mins and 5 seconds...

[gusano79]

A simple Split is fine if all you have to do is split at the underscores and pass the parts off to date/time parsers, but it starts to get messy if you have to do more text manipulation after the split.

This might be slightly overkill for the posted problem, but I suggest you become familiar with regular expressions (if you aren't already) as something to keep in mind for when you have to parse formatted text that isn't dead simple.