Re: List of files with given extension in a directory

From:
Real Gagnon <realgag+usenet@geocities.com>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.java.programmer
Date:
Mon, 03 Aug 2009 03:22:51 GMT
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<Xns9C5BEE91F76C2realhowtowwwrgagnonc@69.16.186.8>
Hakan <H.L@softhome.net> wrote in news:1249269137.43@user.newsoffice.de:

 I would like for the program to find all files with a given extension
in a user chosen directory. The user chooses a directory with a
JFileChooser or something like that and all entries of a certain file
type in there are showed in a drop down list. It seems to be
straightforward to me.


First you define a FilenameFilter :

import java.io.File;
import java.io.FilenameFilter;

public class ExtensionFilter implements FilenameFilter {
  protected String pattern;
  public Filter (String str) {
    pattern = str;
  }
  
  public boolean accept (File dir, String name) {
    return name.toLowerCase().endsWith(pattern.toLowerCase());
  }
}

then you are able to do this :
  
    ExtensionFilter ef = new ExtensionFilter (".txt");
    // current directory
    File dir = new File ("C:\\mydir");
    String[] strs = dir.list(ef);
    for (int i = 0; i < strs.length; i++) {
      System.out.println (strs[i]);
    }

Bye.

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