THE PACKAGE JAVA.IO

java.io.FilenameFilter

22.25

22.25 The Interface

java.io.FilenameFilter

The

list

 method ( 22.24.26) of class

File

 requires, as an argument, an object

that implements the

FilenameFilter

 interface. The only purpose of such an

object is to provide a method

accept

 that decides which files should appear in the

generated directory listing.

public interface FilenameFilter {

public boolean accept(File dir, String name);

}

22.25.1

public boolean accept(File dir, String name)

This method should return

true

 if and only if the given file named

name

 in the

directory

dir

 is to appear in the final list of files generated by the

list

 method

( 22.24.26) of class

File

.

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