Re: A strange behaviour of a File property
On 2011-11-12 01:38:55 +0000, Eric Sosman said:
On 11/11/2011 11:25 AM, Andreas Leitgeb wrote:
alelvb@inwind.it<alelvb@inwind.it> wrote:
public class Main {
public static void main(String[] args){
File f = new File("."); // try to change the path
...
for(int i=0; i<content.length; i++){
file_array[i] = new File("." + "\\" + content[i]);
First of all, did you change the path also here?
or better: define a variable and use it in both spots.
Second, hardcoding "\\" is the worst approach at assembling a
file name from components. See the docu for File class for
a static field that contains the appropriate separator char
for the current platform. For test code, "/" is often good
enough (even on Windows).
Even better is to forgo the silly string-bashing and let File
figure it out:
File parentDir = ...;
File childFile = new File(parentDir, "child");
You don't need that, either, if all you're doing is enumerating
directory contents like the OP. File exposes a method for obtaining the
entries of a directory *as File objects* already, so reconstructing
File objects from the base names and parent directory is pretty much
wasted effort.
Have a look at the listFiles() method.
-o
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