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reading .txt files
hello experts
i am totally stuck here ... actually i want to read the all files that have extension .txt in my hard drive .....it may be any directory or in any path .. the problem is that i cannot specify the path it be any and my all text files can be any folder and in subfolders ...plz give some hints to rectify this problem . so that i will be able to read all the .text files of any computer ...
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Re: reading .txt files
What have you tried? Where are you stuck? Is this for homework? Recursion is your friend here.
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Re: reading .txt files
no thats not a homework ... its suddenly comes to my mind that if i want to do this kind of thing .. then how i can .. the problem which i am facing that in fileinputstream we normally specify the path and file name .
for the name of file .. i can identify it by its .txt extension .... but how i can specify the path .. becz it can be any .. and not same for the different computers .. the idea is that suppose if user want to make a single text file of all his text files which may be any where in his system ..
Re: reading .txt files
Like I said, recursion is your friend here. Hint: a File instance can represent a directory. In which case, it has handy methods for listing all of the Files inside that directory (which themselves can be directories.
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Re: reading .txt files
ya thats right .. that means i can simply specify the drive letter and the can list all the files using list and can chk which one is directory and file having extension .txt
Re: reading .txt files
Originally Posted by deependeroracle
That's the idea, and then you'd just repeat that idea for each directory you find- which is why recursion is your friend.
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deependeroracle (February 9th, 2012)
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