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    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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    What have you tried? Where are you stuck? Is this for homework? Recursion is your friend here.
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    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 ..

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    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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    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

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    Quote Originally Posted by deependeroracle View Post
    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

    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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