How Do I Scan Multiple Directories To Find A Filepath That Contain A Defined String

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I would like to know how could I scan multiple directories on a server to find a file that contains the value of a string that i define.

Basically what i need to achieve is i have a server with multiple directories which contain text files of products, the text files naming convention contains the product id,i created an array of the products that i need to find and when looping through the array i want to find the product file path of the current array value so that i can reference the file path in an XML file that gets exported to an external system.

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Posted 2-Feb-16 2:42am

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Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 2-Feb-16 9:43am

Don't you think you should better use a database?
As to scanning files, what's the problem? What have you tried so far?
—SA

NightWizzard 2-Feb-16 13:34pm

You can do a reverse loop through all directories and their files using the file system objects and read the content of each file into a string variable in one step (read all bytes). Then use the IndexOf method to check for the searched string.

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