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Article #2100Re: Deleting some files with a given extension
From: Jon Skeet
Date: Thu, 14 Jun 2001 10:26
Date: Thu, 14 Jun 2001 10:26
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Laurent Souriau <lsouriau@club-internet.fr> wrote:
> I currently have the following problem :
>
> I have a directory, let ' s say : d:\Temp\
> containing some files with different names.
>
> The files have the following syntax names : RepSQL*.tmp
>
> where * is unknown to the programmer.
>
> I would like to create File toto = new File("d:\Temp\RepSQL*.tmp");
> and then delete this file with toto.delete();
See File.listFiles (FilenameFilter)
- you just have to create a FilenameFilter that returns true when names
of the form RepSQL*.tmp are passed to it (eg by testing
name.startsWith ("RepSQL") && name.endsWith (".tmp"))
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