Java Coding Problems

Filtering via FilenameFilter

The FilenameFilter functional interface can be used to filter files from a folder as well. First, we need to define a filter (for example, the following is a filter for files of the PDF type):

String[] files = path.toFile().list(new FilenameFilter() {  @Override  public boolean accept(File folder, String fileName) {    return fileName.endsWith(".pdf");  }});

We can do the same in functional-style:

FilenameFilter filter = (File folder, String fileName)   -> fileName.endsWith(".pdf");

Let's make this more concise:

FilenameFilter filter = (f, n) -> n.endsWith(".pdf");

In order to use this filter, we need to pass it to the overloaded File.list​(FilenameFilter filter) or File.listFiles​(FilenameFilter filter) method:

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