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listing files in a sorted order

 
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The method File[] listFiles() will return back an array of
file objects. But I want to have the array sorted alphabetically.
How can it be done?
 
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Hi,
you could investigate the java.util.Arrays or java.util.Collections APIs. They have various methods for performing sorting on arrays or lists.
I tried the following code:

When run under windows, the File[] is already sorted for you, but when run under Unix I needed to add the call to Arrays.sort(Object[]).
If the desired sorting isn't what you are after then you will have to define your own custom sorting by implementing Comparator and calling something like Arrays.sort(Object[] myArray, Comparator myComparator).
James.
 
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Thanks for your reply.
I got the alphabetically sorted list by using Arrays.sort(Object[])
Thanks again
 
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