Parsing FtpWebRequest ListDirectoryDetails line

Question

I need some help with parsing the response from ListDirectoryDetails in C#.

I only need the following fields.

• File Name/Directory Name
• Date Created
• and the File Size.

Here's what some of the lines look like when I run ListDirectoryDetails:

d--x--x--x    2 ftp      ftp          4096 Mar 07  2002 bin
-rw-r--r--    1 ftp      ftp        659450 Jun 15 05:07 TEST.TXT
-rw-r--r--    1 ftp      ftp      101786380 Sep 08  2008 TEST03-05.TXT
drwxrwxr-x    2 ftp      ftp          4096 May 06 12:24 dropoff

Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

Not sure if you still need this, but this is the solution i came up with:

Regex regex = new Regex ( @"^([d-])([rwxt-]{3}){3}\s+\d{1,}\s+.*?(\d{1,})\s+(\w+\s+\d{1,2}\s+(?:\d{4})?)(\d{1,2}:\d{2})?\s+(.+?)\s?$",
    RegexOptions.Compiled | RegexOptions.Multiline | RegexOptions.IgnoreCase | RegexOptions.IgnorePatternWhitespace );

Match Groups:

1. object type:
   • d : directory
   • - : file
2. Array[3] of permissions (rwx-)
3. File Size
4. Last Modified Date
5. Last Modified Time
6. File/Directory Name