Blank space after file extension -> weird FileInfo behaviour

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Published on 2010-04-30T07:00:56Z Indexed on 2010/04/30 7:07 UTC
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Somehow a file has appeared in one of my directories, and it has space at the end of its extension - its name is "test.txt ". The weird thing is that Directory.GetFiles() returns me the path of this file, but I'm unable to retrieve file information with FileInfo class.

The error manifests here:

DirectoryInfo di = new DirectoryInfo("c:\\somedir");
FileInfo fi = di.GetFileSystemInfos("test*")[0] as FileInfo; 
//correctly fi.FullName is "c:\somedir\test.txt "
//but fi.Exists==false (!)

Is FileInfo class broken? Can I somehow retrieve information about this file? I really don't know how did that file appear on my file system, and I am unable to recreate some more of them.

All of my attempts to create a new file with this type of extension have failed, but now my program is crashing when encoutering it. I can easily handle the exception when finding the file, but boy am I curious about this!

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