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Java get File List
Posted on: October 24, 2008 at 12:00 AM

In this section, you will study how to retrieve all the files and folders from the specified directory. In the given example, we are providing the directory 'C:\\" to the constructor of class File.

Java get File List

In this section, you will study how to retrieve all the files and folders from the specified directory. In the given example, we are providing the directory 'C:\\" to the constructor of class File.

file.listFiles()- This method returns an array of files and folders present in the specified directory with their pathname.

file.length()- This method returns the length of the provided directory.

files[fileInList]. toString- This will display all the files of directory on the console.

Here is the code of GetFileList.java


import java.io.*;

public class GetFileList

{

 public static void main(String args[]){

 File file = new File("C:\\");  

 File[] files = file.listFiles();  

 for (int fileInList = 0; fileInList < files.length; fileInList++)  

 {  

 System.out.println(files[fileInList].toString());  

 }  

 }

}

Output will be displayed as:

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