How to set filter for FileSystemWatcher for multiple file types?

Question

Everywhere I find these two lines of code used to set filter for file system watcher in samples provided..

FileSystemWatcher watcher = new FileSystemWatcher(         


        

Answer 1

There is a workaround.

The idea is to watch for all extensions and then in the OnChange event, filter out to desired extensions:

FileSystemWatcher objWatcher = new FileSystemWatcher(); 
objWatcher.Filter = "*.*"; 
objWatcher.Changed += new FileSystemEventHandler(OnChanged); 

private static void OnChanged(object source, FileSystemEventArgs e) 
{ 
    // get the file's extension 
    string strFileExt = getFileExt(e.FullPath); 

    // filter file types 
    if (Regex.IsMatch(strFileExt, @"\.txt)|\.doc", RegexOptions.IgnoreCase)) 
    { 
        Console.WriteLine("watched file type changed."); 
    } 
}