Regex to find a file in folder

Question

How to find all files matches a regex pattern in a folder?

Thanks

Answer 1

Regex matching of filesystem is not supported you will have to iterate through each of the files in the directory and check them individually

Answer 2

The GetFiles method allows you to specify a wildcard pattern but not really a regex. Another possibility is to simply loop through the files and validate their name against a regex.

IEnumerable<string> files = Directory
    .EnumerateFiles(@"c:\somePath")
    .Where(name => Regex.IsMatch(name, "SOME REGEX"));