Get PDF file to put into zip

[atarantino]

I am trying to zip two files into a .zip. I ran a log to and i see that one file it finds, the other file it does not. What is the easiest way for me to find a .pdf file in a directory that only has 1 .txt, 1 .xlsx and 1 .pdf? I tried to use Directory.GetFiles(“C:\Temp\KenoKozie”,".pdf") but i get an error about the string. Not sure what else i can do. The error says "Compiler error(s) encountered processing expression “Directory.GetFiles(“C:\Temp\KenoKozie”,”.pdf")". value of Type ‘1-dimensional array of String’ cannot be convereted to ‘String’. "

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[gabrielribas4 (Gabriel Ribas)]

Hey @atarantino !! Use this expression

Directory.GetFiles(“C:\Temp\KenoKozie”,"*.pdf")

With “*” before “.pdf”!
Another note is that the return is an array of String, not a String. So you need to store it in an Array.

Hope it help!

[atarantino]

Thanks. It still isn’t finding the PDF to use in the zip activity. the log comes up System.String

[atarantino]

Sytem.string

[gabrielribas4 (Gabriel Ribas)]

Debug your code and see what activity is throwing this error, then send here!

[Skyman1 (William Zunis)]

Are you using the GUI winzip or the commandline:
wzzip.exe -a -p -r C:\DestinationPath\DataFiles_20130903.zip C:\SourcePath*.dat C:\SourcePath*.bat.

I have used the wzzip in the past and it works great.

[atarantino]

I figure it out. The initial .pdf file comes from off an email. During the save attachment activity, i created an output i called PDFOutput which is a System.Collections.Generic.IEnumberable<system.string> variable type. I then used an assign activity and created a string variable called PDFFile where in the argument i joined the strings using string.join(",",PDFOutput). This string value was able to be passed in the compress/zip activity and works fine now.