Hi All,
I have developed a piece of software that creates directories for our firm. This creates a standard set of them so as not to have to create all of them every time. (This is a big time saver).
What i would please like to know is, how do i verify a directory so that i do not create to very similiar.
e.g. Our directories will always begin with "M:\PROJECTS\K199 Project name"
but what can hapen is:
"M:\PROJECTS\K199_Project_name" - somebody using it and using underscores instead of spaces. this can then creat 2 very simulair names !Now the drive & base directory will always remain the same but the project name is a incemental thing. this means that everytime 1 gets added and gets a new project name. How do i verify the first 4 letters to not be the same as ones already created.
Thanks
Directory Verification
Henrik Bach
Thank You.
This works great
Nightwish
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The code you going to need is going to be something similar to
Function SubDirectoryExistsForProject(ByVal RootDirectory As String, ByVal Project As String) As Boolean
Dim StrDirList() As String
Dim bFound As Boolean = False
StrDirList = System.IO.Directory.GetDirectories(RootDirectory)
For Each s As String In StrDirList
If s.Substring(0, 4) = Project Then
bFound = True
Exit For
End If
Next
Return bFound
End Function
This should check the first 4 letters of each of your sub folders names and return true if there is a match. You may need to add a little bit more code to make it a bit more robust such as if the folder is less than 4 characters but this should be the general basis of your code that you would need.