How to make For each start with a specific item and run the whole list too?

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Basically i am looping through a Folder using the Directory.GetFiles and For each . My Requirement is to Loop a specific file name first no matter how many files are in the folder, name of the file is almost static so we can target that if needed.

Scenario 1

  • Folder have files A,B,myfile,D

  • Loop order = myfile,A,B,D

Scenario 2

  • Folder have files A,B,G,I,L,myfile,K

  • Loop order = myfile,A,B,G,I,L,k

order of other files don’t matter, have to have ‘myfile’ loop first, How can i do this ? Thanks in advance

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you can use this pattern to search files in directory. It will first pick your file.Directory.GetFiles(attachFolderLocation,“myfile”)

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but this would only pick the file “myfile”, and wont pick the A,B,C etc files. Requirement is to loop all files but loop the “myfile” first (in the same loop)

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Check this:

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Just use the file you want first, before getting the files, inside your for each, put an if condition to avoid processing that file again…

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its weird situation, we have to have this all in the same loop due to a big portion of the existing code.

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put the code in a separate wf file…

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Great this works like a charm

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