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Long files names

Answer 1

+13 A:

Directory.GetFiles(myPath)
    .OrderByDescending(s => s.Length)
    .Take(howManyYouWant);

Yuriy Faktorovich 2010-10-14 14:53:19

+1 beat me to it... (might want to suggest adding Take)

Nix 2010-10-14 14:54:28

`Directory.GetFiles(myPath)` if you want all files, not just directories

Lou Franco 2010-10-14 14:54:51

@Nix already done.

Yuriy Faktorovich 2010-10-14 14:55:06

And if you're using .NET 4 then `EnumerateFiles` might be more efficient than `GetFiles`.

LukeH 2010-10-14 14:58:01

Answer 2

A:

var filelist = Directory.GetFiles(<directorypathandname>);
var result = filelist.Where( f => f.Length == filelist.Max( f2 => f2.Length));

Now result will contain all files with the longest name. Usually only one I guess, but all of them if they have identical length, and is longest.

Øyvind Bråthen 2010-10-14 14:55:36

Long files names