Reading dir

[Manuel Paco]

Help please
How can I get all let's say "gif" or "jpg" files residing in the directory
"C:\MyFiles" to my String array.

[Mark Herschberg]

Use the java.io.File's list() and related methods. If you want to get complex, use the java.io.FilenameFilter interface. In any case, you'll end up with an array of Strings.
--Mark

[Dirk Schreckmann]

class MyFilenameFilter implements java.io.FilenameFilter 
{
    public boolean accept( java.io.File dir , String name ) 
    {
        return ( name.endsWith( ".jpg" ) || 
                 name.endsWith( ".gif" ) );
    }
}

import java.io.File ;
 
public class Whatever 
{
    public static void main( String[] args ) throws Exception 
    {
        File directory = new File( "c:\\MyFiles" );
        String[] images = directory.list( new MyFilenameFilter() );
        
        for ( int i = 0 ; i < images.length ; i++ ) 
        {
            System.out.println( images[ i ] );
        }
    }
}

[Manuel Paco]

Thank you very much