i’m developing a little Java program for my company.
In this program i need to retreive from my local folder some files, but i need to search the files by the first three character and by extension.
Reading the java documentation I saw that the java.nio.file.Files library exists and So to filter the files by name and extension I saw that there are the startsWith() and endsWith() constructs which I have implemented as follows so I tried to use it.
//recuperiamo tutti i file nella directory attuale e filtro per F4_*.cbi, CN_*.cbi, A4_*.cbi, Q4_*.cbi
dirFiles = new File("C:/www/htdocs/comune/F24_CT/deleghe_da_inviare_a_icbpi/");
listOfFiles = dirFiles.listFiles(new FilenameFilter() {
public boolean accept(File dirFiles, String filename)
{
return filename.startsWith("F4_");
}
} );
Is it possible to filter for various filenames and concatenate endsWith tostartsWith?
I would like to be able to filter by name according to the criteria startsWits("F24 _"), startsWith("CN _"), startsWith("A4 _") and endsWith(".txt ").
I accept any advice or suggestions to improve my knowledge and the code
>Solution :
You could either use a logical AND expression && or a regex.
listOfFiles = dirFiles.listFiles(new FilenameFilter() {
public boolean accept(File dirFiles, String filename) {
boolean endsWith = filename.toLowerCase().endsWith(".txt");
boolean startsWith = filename.startsWith("F4_") && filename.startsWith("CN_") && filename.startsWith("A4_") && filename.startsWith("Q4_");
return startsWith && endsWith;
}
});
If you want to use a regex it will looks like this (F4_|CN_|A4_|Q4_).*(\.txt|\.TXT).
You can check how this regex works here.
listOfFiles = dirFiles.listFiles(new FilenameFilter() {
public boolean accept(File dirFiles, String filename) {
return filename.matches("(F4_|CN_|A4_|Q4_).*(\.txt|\.TXT)");
}
});