So to summarize I'm making a program that's supposed to look for a txt in the folder of the exe, if it does not find the txt it will create it, when I ran the program the txt wasn't there. This is how I got the directory/path of the exe:
string dir = AppDomain.CurrentDomain.BaseDirectory;
So I tried to write "dir" to the Console, which gives me the directory:
C:\Users\alvin\AppData\Local\Temp.net\GlosFörhör\gbmh2ttz.bkf\glosor.txt
Which is in the windows temp folder. I'm guessing console applications run in the windows temp directory. But what I need is the directory/path for the actual exe file. How can I do this?
Heres the code:
using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.IO;
using System.Reflection;
namespace GlosFörhör
{
class Program
{
static void Main(string[] args)
{
string[] lang1 = { "word1", "word2", "g", "a", "d" };
string[] lang2 = { "word1", "word2", "g", "a", "d" };
bool running = true;
bool firstTime = true;
while (running)
{
if (firstTime)
{
main(lang1, lang2);
running = false;
}
}
void main(string[] lang1, string[] lang2)
{
Console.WriteLine(getValidTxt());
Console.WriteLine(AppDomain.CurrentDomain.BaseDirectory);
Console.ReadLine();
int[] choiceSeed = getChoiceSeed(lang1);
lang1 = followSeed(choiceSeed, lang1);
lang2 = followSeed(choiceSeed, lang2);
int score = 0;
for (int m = 0; m < lang1.Length; m++)
{
Console.WriteLine(lang1[m]);
string input = Console.ReadLine();
if (input.ToLower() == lang2[m].ToLower())
{
Console.WriteLine("Rätt!");
score++;
}
else
{
Console.WriteLine("Tyvärr, fel :(");
}
}
Console.WriteLine();
Console.WriteLine("Du fick " + score + " rätt av " + lang1.Length + " möjliga.");
Console.ReadLine();
}
int[] getChoiceSeed(string[] input)
{
var iL = new List<string>(input);
var rL = new List<int>();
var intL = new List<int>();
for (int t = 0; t < input.Length; t++)
{
intL.Add(t);
}
for (int t = 0; t < input.Length; t++)
{
Random rnd = new Random();
int tmpIDX = rnd.Next(0, (iL.Count));
rL.Add(intL[tmpIDX]);
iL.RemoveAt(tmpIDX);
intL.RemoveAt(tmpIDX);
}
int[] r = rL.ToArray();
return r;
}
string[] followSeed(int[] seed, string[] input)
{
var rL = new List<string>();
foreach (int i in seed)
{
rL.Add(input[i]);
}
string[] r = rL.ToArray();
return r;
}
string getValidTxt()
{
string dir = AppDomain.CurrentDomain.BaseDirectory;
if (File.Exists("glosor.txt"))
{
return dir + "glosor.txt";
}
else
{
int txtCnt = 0;
var txts = new List<string>();
DirectoryInfo di = new DirectoryInfo(dir);
foreach (FileInfo file in di.GetFiles())
{
if (file.ToString().Substring(file.ToString().Length - 4) == ".txt")
{
txtCnt++;
txts.Add(file.ToString());
}
}
if (txtCnt > 0)
{
return dir + txts[0];
}
else
{
File.Create(dir + "glosor.txt");
Environment.Exit(0);
return dir + "glosor.txt";
}
}
}
}
}
}
The program is supposed to take in two arrays of words (lang1 and lang2) and print them to the console and "exam" the user to write them in another language, this could be useful for example for schoolwork. Anyway, the part where I get the arrays from a txt file is where I'm stuck. The "getValidTxt" method will first check if the file "glosor.txt" is in the directory, if it is it will return the path of the file "glosor.txt" which is done simply by adding the directory and "glosor.txt". If not however, it will check if any other files that end with ".txt" If there are, it will add them to a list and return the first item, along with the directory. If not it will add "glosor.txt", and close the program so that the user can input the words into the txt.
The "getChoiceSeed" and "followSeed" are just for randomizing the order of the words.
