Effect of using FileInfo this way?

[Michael A. Covington]

I just saw something like this in someone else's code and am curious...


string fname;

.... store a filename in fn ...

FileInfo fi = new FileInfo(fname);
string name = fi.Name;


What is the difference between fname and name? By creating FileInfo do we
verify that the file exists? Retrieve its full path? Or what?

 

[simida]

fname is a full path name, but Name just is a file name which doesn't
contain path but contain extension.

For second, we can verify that file exists according to FileInfo class'
Exists property.
Such as,

FileInfo fi = new FileInfo(fname);
if (fi.Exists)
{
// do other things
}

Sincerely,