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how to search for a certain extension within a folder

 
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Dear All
I want to search for a certain extention inside the folder
ie *.txt
how can i do this
thanks for help
Maha Aburahma
 
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See this example from the Java Almanac.
 
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in DOS:

dir *.txt

in Linux:

ls *.txt
 
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Originally posted by Megs Maquito:
in DOS:

dir *.txt

in Linux:

ls *.txt




can i write
File dir = new File ("path");
String [] fileslist = dir.list("ls *.txt");
 
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No, Megs' post tells how to do this from the command line, not from Java. If you look at the API for File, you will find there's no way to use list() with a String argument. (The fact that the code does not compile would be another clue.)
 
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