How do I retrieve all filenames in a directory?

Question

How do I retrieve all filenames matching a pattern in a directory? I tried this but it returns the full path instead of the filename.

Directory.GetFiles (path, "*.txt")

Do I have to manually crop the directory path off of the result? It's easy but maybe there is an even simpler solution :)

Answer 1

Do you want to recurse through subdirectories? Use Directory.EnumerateFiles:

var fileNames = Directory.EnumerateFiles(@"\", "*.*", SearchOption.AllDirectories);