How to get only filenames within a directory using c

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When I use the line of code as below   I get an string array containing the entire path of the individual files     private string   pdfFiles   Directory GetFiles  C   Documents      pdf      I would like to know if there is a way to only retrieve the file names in the strings rather than the entire paths

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There are so many ways     1st Way   string   folders   Directory GetDirectories path       SearchOption TopDirectoryOnly   string jsonString   JsonConvert SerializeObject folders     2nd Way   string   folders   new DirectoryInfo yourPath  GetDirectories   Select d   gt  d Name  ToArray      3rd Way   string   folders        new DirectoryInfo yourPath  GetDirectories   Select delegate DirectoryInfo di                return di Name         ToArray

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You can use the method Path GetFileName yourFileName    MSDN  to just get the name of the file

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string   fileEntries   Directory GetFiles directoryPath    foreach  var file name in fileEntries       string fileName   file name Substring directoryPath Length   1       Console WriteLine fileName

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You can simply use linq  Directory EnumerateFiles LoanFolder  Select file   gt  Path GetFileName file      Note  EnumeratesFiles is more efficient compared to Directory GetFiles as you can start enumerating the collection of names before the whole collection is returned

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You can use Path GetFileName to get the filename from the full path  private string   pdfFiles   Directory GetFiles  C   Documents      pdf                                         Select Path GetFileName                                        ToArray        EDIT  the solution above uses LINQ  so it requires  NET 3 5 at least  Here s a solution that works on earlier versions   private string   pdfFiles   GetFileNames  C   Documents      pdf     private static string   GetFileNames string path  string filter        string   files   Directory GetFiles path  filter       for int i   0  i  lt  files Length  i            files i    Path GetFileName files i        return files

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You could use the DirectoryInfo and FileInfo classes     GetFiles on DirectoryInfo returns a FileInfo object  var pdfFiles   new DirectoryInfo  C   Documents   GetFiles    pdf       FileInfo has a Name property that only contains the filename part  var firstPdfFilename   pdfFiles 0  Name

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using System  using System Collections Generic  using System IO  using System Linq  using System Text  using System Threading Tasks   namespace GetNameOfFiles       public class Program               static void Main string   args                       string   fileArray   Directory GetFiles   YOUR PATH               for  int i   0  i  lt  fileArray Length  i                                 Console WriteLine fileArray i                             Console ReadLine

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