Directories

[KevMeistr]

Hi..

I'm really not sure if this topic is advanced or beginner stuff but here goes..

I have a directory on my computer that is in the same directory as the java files that I save to disk..in that directory are all kinds of .htm files..is there any way of "seeing" inside the directory and checking whether a file is of the form that I specify.

Sorry, if this doesn't make sense..

[Eranga]

You want to read the content of a folder in Java, right?

[sukatoa]

I may get all the file names of that directory(Form of array), and check if the extension is an htm file or not....

You may implement a method that receives a file name and returns true if the given filename is a htm file...

If i got what you meant...

[Nicholas Jordan]

Java io package has a class called File - it behaves remarkably like a file as we know it. One can do:
import java.io.File;
File aFile = new File(".");//

and that will get you the current directory. We then can do
String[] arrayOfFiles = aFile.list();//

And thus get an array with all the filenames in it just as one would see in windowed gui

See:

java.sun.com/j2se/1.3/docs/api/java/io/File.html

Often, if one knew how to ask the question - you could answer the question.

[KevMeistr]

Hi again..

Yeah I used the File class from io but I want to pass a filter to list the files as the type of filter I specified..

i.e. I pass 2 strings; directory name (easy to convert to File) and filter (having trouble converting to FilenameFilter)

I have the filter as "E.*\.htm"..so I want to create an array of all .htm files that have this type of name format..

Thanks in advance.. the File class was really helpul

[KevMeistr]

Yes, that's right..

Just look at my previous post

[Nicholas Jordan]

I had trouble getting filename filter to work, after some reading I decided it was actually and interface. At that time I had just gained the ablility to write an interface, what one does is write a class declaring it implements the interface - then code the methods declared in the interface.

At that point, it is accept(String filename) or some version of that: I would have to look at the docs. In that class, the method would look for htm or html. The String class has a search method, it returns minus one if the string does not contain what you are looking for. There is a way to have it look at the end of the string, but I would have to look it up for you.

It is better if you make several attempts, then ask me when you are stuck. I can now look stuff up efficiently and seem to do well getting people unstuck - sometimes on api's I never heard of.