how to search for a certain extension within a folder

[Maha Hassan]

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

[Jim Yingst]

See this example from the Java Almanac.

[Megs Maquito]

in DOS:

dir *.txt

in Linux:

ls *.txt

[Maha Hassan]

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");

[Jim Yingst]

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.)