Java: Find .txt files in specified folder [closed]

Is there a built in Java code that will parse a given folder and search it for .txt files?

You can use the listFiles() method provided by the java.io.File class.

import java.io.File;
import java.io.FilenameFilter;

public class Filter {

    public File[] finder( String dirName){
        File dir = new File(dirName);

        return dir.listFiles(new FilenameFilter() { 
                 public boolean accept(File dir, String filename)
                      { return filename.endsWith(".txt"); }
        } );

    }

}

Try:

List<String> textFiles(String directory) {
  List<String> textFiles = new ArrayList<String>();
  File dir = new File(directory);
  for (File file : dir.listFiles()) {
    if (file.getName().endsWith((".txt"))) {
      textFiles.add(file.getName());
    }
  }
  return textFiles;
}

You want to do a case insensitive search in which case:

    if (file.getName().toLowerCase().endsWith((".txt"))) {

If you want to recursively search for through a directory tree for text files, you should be able to adapt the above as either a recursive function or an iterative function using a stack.

import org.apache.commons.io.filefilter.WildcardFileFilter;

.........
.........

File dir = new File(fileDir);
FileFilter fileFilter = new WildcardFileFilter("*.txt");
File[] files = dir.listFiles(fileFilter);

The code above works great for me