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Reputation: 1899

How to get double quotes around folder names with spaces

Here is my code

string path1 = @"C:\Program Files (x86)\Common Files";
string path2 = @"Microsoft Shared";
string path = Path.Combine(path1, path2);

Console.WriteLine(path);

The output provides me

C:\Program Files (x86)\Common Files\Microsoft Shared

I would like to have any folder names with spaces in double quotes as follows

C:\"Program Files (x86)"\"Common Files"\"Microsoft Shared"

How can I get that?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 1785

Answers (2)

Matt Hensley
Matt Hensley

Reputation: 883

The easiest way to do this would be with LINQ.

You can split your folder path into an array listing all of the folder names, then manipulate each individual element using a Select().

In your case you would want to:

  1. Split the string into an array (using the '/' to separate elements)
  2. Format the folder name as "{folderName}" if the folder name contains spaces
  3. Rejoin the array as a single string, with the '/' for your delimiter

Here is what that would look like, please note I have used 2 Select()'s for clarity & to help identify the different steps. They can be a single statement.

        string path1 = @"C:\Program Files (x86)\Common Files";
        string path2 = @"Microsoft Shared";
        string path = System.IO.Path.Combine(path1, path2);

        var folderNames = path.Split('\\');

        folderNames = folderNames.Select(fn => (fn.Contains(' ')) ? String.Format("\"{0}\"", fn) : fn)
                                 .ToArray();

        var fullPathWithQuotes = String.Join("\\", folderNames);

The output of the above process is:

C:\"Program Files (x86)"\"Common Files"\"Microsoft Shared"

Upvotes: 2

Hamid Pourjam
Hamid Pourjam

Reputation: 20754

You can create an extension method 

public static class Ex
{
    public static string PathForBatchFile(this string input)
    {
        return input.Contains(" ") ? $"\"{input}\"" : input;
    }
}

use it like

var path = @"C:\Program Files (x86)\Common Files\Microsoft Shared";
Console.WriteLine(path.PathForBatchFile());

It uses the string interpolation feature in C# 6.0. If you are not using C# 6.0 you can use this instead.

public static class Ex
{
    public static string PathForBatchFile(this string input)
    {
        return input.Contains(" ") ? string.Format("\"{0}\"", input) : input;
    }
}

Upvotes: 1

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