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Java Coding Problems
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Java Coding Problems

by Anghel Leonard
September 2019
Intermediate to advanced
816 pages
18h 47m
English
Packt Publishing
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Searching for a file by name

Searching a certain file on a computer is a common task. Typically, we rely on tools that are provided by the operating system or additional tools, but if we want to accomplish this programmatically (for example, we may want to write a file search tool with special features), then FileVisitor can help us achieve this in a pretty straightforward way. The stub of this application is listed as follows:

public class SearchFileVisitor implements FileVisitor {  private final Path fileNameToSearch;  private boolean fileFound;  ...  private boolean search(Path file) throws IOException {    Path fileName = file.getFileName();    if (fileNameToSearch.equals(fileName)) {      System.out.println("Searched file was found: " + fileNameToSearch ...
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