I'm trying to parse the result of the Ftp.ListDirectoryDetails command, I want just the FileName and the last modification date Not Directories.
The command returns this:
"01-21-09 06:16PM rattandom"
"01-21-09 08:01PM 9900 myfile.txt"
Does somebody know the way to parse it? I was reading and if the server is Windows or Unix it will return something different. The result that I paste is for an FTP in a Windows 2003 Server
FTP list results are non-standard so every FTP server could potentially return something different.
There is a suggested regular exception that works on both Windows and Unix based FTP servers. See this answer.
You may want to try Ftp.dll FTP component it pareses most UNIX and Windows LIST command responses:
using (Ftp client = new Ftp())
{
client.Connect("ftp.example.org");
client.Login("user", "password");
List<FtpItem> items = client.GetList();
foreach (FtpItem item in items)
{
Console.WriteLine("Name: {0}", item.Name);
Console.WriteLine("Size: {0}", item.Size);
Console.WriteLine("Modify date: {0}", item.ModifyDate);
Console.WriteLine("Is folder: {0}", item.IsFolder);
Console.WriteLine("Is file: {0}", item.IsFile);
Console.WriteLine("Is symlink: {0}", item.IsSymlink);
Console.WriteLine();
}
client.Close();
}
Please note that this is a commercial product I created.