I would like to create a method which takes either a filename as a string or a FileInfo and adds an incremented number to the filename if the file
This method will add a index to existing file if needed:
If the file exist, find the position of the last underscore. If the content after the underscore is a number, increase this number. otherwise add first index. repeat until unused file name found.
static public string AddIndexToFileNameIfNeeded(string sFileNameWithPath)
{
string sFileNameWithIndex = sFileNameWithPath;
while (File.Exists(sFileNameWithIndex)) // run in while scoop so if after adding an index the the file name the new file name exist, run again until find a unused file name
{ // File exist, need to add index
string sFilePath = Path.GetDirectoryName(sFileNameWithIndex);
string sFileName = Path.GetFileNameWithoutExtension(sFileNameWithIndex);
string sFileExtension = Path.GetExtension(sFileNameWithIndex);
if (sFileName.Contains('_'))
{ // Need to increase the existing index by one or add first index
int iIndexOfUnderscore = sFileName.LastIndexOf('_');
string sContentAfterUnderscore = sFileName.Substring(iIndexOfUnderscore + 1);
// check if content after last underscore is a number, if so increase index by one, if not add the number _01
int iCurrentIndex;
bool bIsContentAfterLastUnderscoreIsNumber = int.TryParse(sContentAfterUnderscore, out iCurrentIndex);
if (bIsContentAfterLastUnderscoreIsNumber)
{
iCurrentIndex++;
string sContentBeforUnderscore = sFileName.Substring(0, iIndexOfUnderscore);
sFileName = sContentBeforUnderscore + "_" + iCurrentIndex.ToString("000");
sFileNameWithIndex = sFilePath + "\\" + sFileName + sFileExtension;
}
else
{
sFileNameWithIndex = sFilePath + "\\" + sFileName + "_001" + sFileExtension;
}
}
else
{ // No underscore in file name. Simple add first index
sFileNameWithIndex = sFilePath + "\\" + sFileName + "_001" + sFileExtension;
}
}
return sFileNameWithIndex;
}