create a regular expression based on numbers in the names of files in a folder in csharp

To create a regular expression based on numbers in the names of files in a folder, we can use the System.Text.RegularExpressions namespace in C#.

main.cs
using System.IO;
using System.Text.RegularExpressions;

// Path to the folder containing the files
string folderPath = @"C:\Users\Username\Documents\Files";

// Regular expression pattern to match numbers in file names
string pattern = @"\d+";

// Get all the files in the folder
string[] files = Directory.GetFiles(folderPath);

// Loop through each file
foreach (string file in files)
{
    // Get the file name without the extension
    string fileNameWithoutExtension = Path.GetFileNameWithoutExtension(file);

    // Use regular expression to find all the numbers in the file name
    MatchCollection matches = Regex.Matches(fileNameWithoutExtension, pattern);

    // Loop through each match
    foreach (Match match in matches)
    {
        // Get the matched number
        int number = int.Parse(match.Value);

        // Do something with the number
        Console.WriteLine($"Found number {number} in file {file}");
    }
}
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This code first specifies the path to the folder containing the files. Then it defines a regular expression pattern that matches any sequence of one or more digits. Next, it gets all the files in the folder and loops through each file. For each file, it gets the file name without the extension and uses regular expression to find all the numbers in the file name. It then loops through each match and converts the matched number to an integer. Finally, it does something with the number (in this case, it simply prints a message to the console).

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