public static IList <DirectoryListItem> GetDirectoryList(string datastring)
        {
            try {
                var myListArray        = new List <DirectoryListItem>();
                var dataRecords        = datastring.Split('\n');
                var directoryListStyle = GuessDirectoryListingStyle(dataRecords);
                foreach (var s in dataRecords)
                {
                    if (directoryListStyle != EDirectoryListingStyle.Unknown && s != "")
                    {
                        var f = new DirectoryListItem();
                        f.Name = "..";
                        switch (directoryListStyle)
                        {
                        case EDirectoryListingStyle.UnixStyle:
                            f = ParseDirectoryListItemFromUnixStyleRecord(s);
                            break;

                        case EDirectoryListingStyle.WindowsStyle:
                            f = ParseDirectoryListItemFromWindowsStyleRecord(s);
                            break;
                        }
                        if (!(f == null || f.Name == "." || f.Name == ".."))
                        {
                            myListArray.Add(f);
                        }
                    }
                }
                return(myListArray);
            } catch (Exception ex) {
                throw new FtpException("Unable to parse the directory list", ex);
            }
        }
        private static DirectoryListItem ParseDirectoryListItemFromWindowsStyleRecord(string record)
        {
            //Assuming the record style as
            // 02-03-04  07:46PM       <DIR>          Append
            var f          = new DirectoryListItem();
            var processstr = record.Trim();
            var dateStr    = processstr.Substring(0, 8);

            processstr = processstr.Substring(8, processstr.Length - 8).Trim();
            var timeStr = processstr.Substring(0, 7);

            processstr     = processstr.Substring(7, processstr.Length - 7).Trim();
            f.CreationTime = DateTime.Parse(dateStr + " " + timeStr, CultureInfo.GetCultureInfo("en-US"));
            if (processstr.Substring(0, 5) == "<DIR>")
            {
                f.IsDirectory = true;
                processstr    = processstr.Substring(5, processstr.Length - 5).Trim();
            }
            else
            {
                f.IsDirectory = false;

                var i = processstr.IndexOf(' ');
                f.Size = ulong.Parse(processstr.Substring(0, i));

                processstr = processstr.Substring(i + 1);
            }
            f.Name = processstr; //Rest is name
            return(f);
        }
        private static DirectoryListItem ParseDirectoryListItemFromUnixStyleRecord(string record)
        {
            //Assuming record style as
            // dr-xr-xr-x   1 owner    group               0 Nov 25  2002 bussys

            // Mac OS X - tnftpd returns the total on the first line
            if (record.ToLower().StartsWith("total "))
            {
                return(null);
            }

            var f          = new DirectoryListItem();
            var processstr = record.Trim();

            processstr    = processstr.Substring(processstr.IndexOf(' ') - 10);
            f.Flags       = processstr.Substring(0, 10);
            f.IsDirectory = f.Flags[0] == 'd';
            // Note: there is no way to determine here if the symlink refers to a dir or a file
            f.IsSymLink = f.Flags[0] == 'l';
            processstr  = processstr.Substring(11).Trim();
            CutSubstringFromStringWithTrim(ref processstr, " ", 0); //skip one part
            f.Owner = CutSubstringFromStringWithTrim(ref processstr, " ", 0);
            f.Group = CutSubstringFromStringWithTrim(ref processstr, " ", 0);
            f.Size  = ulong.Parse(CutSubstringFromStringWithTrim(ref processstr, " ", 0));

            var    creationTimeStr = CutSubstringFromStringWithTrim(ref processstr, " ", 8);
            string dateFormat;

            if (creationTimeStr.IndexOf(':') < 0)
            {
                dateFormat = "MMM dd yyyy";
            }
            else
            {
                dateFormat = "MMM dd H:mm";
            }

            // Some servers (e.g.: Mac OS X 10.5 - tnftpd) return days < 10 without a leading 0
            if (creationTimeStr[4] == ' ')
            {
                creationTimeStr = creationTimeStr.Substring(0, 4) + "0" + creationTimeStr.Substring(5);
            }

            f.CreationTime = DateTime.ParseExact(creationTimeStr, dateFormat, CultureInfo.GetCultureInfo("en-US"), DateTimeStyles.AllowWhiteSpaces);

            if (f.IsSymLink && processstr.IndexOf(UnixSymLinkPathSeparator) > 0)
            {
                f.Name = CutSubstringFromStringWithTrim(ref processstr, UnixSymLinkPathSeparator, 0);
                f.SymLinkTargetPath = processstr;
            }
            else
            {
                f.Name = processstr; //Rest of the part is name
            }
            return(f);
        }