File.Exists() and URI?

[Gustaf Liljegren]

I have a document with links written in the URI syntax, like this:

file:///c:/folder/example1.xml
file:///c:/folder/example2.xml

I want to check if these file exists before I read them, but the
IO.File.Exists() method doesn't seem to handle the URI syntax. Is there an
alternative way for URIs, or do I need to parse the URIs and write them as
Windows file paths?

Thanks,

Gustaf

 

[Nicholas Paldino [.NET/C# MVP]]

Gustaf,

You can pass the URL to the Uri class constructor. Once you have an Uri
instance, you can get the filename using the LocalPath property, which
returns the local operating-system representation of a filename.

Hope this helps.