Finding a folder or a file

[Kelly Harris]

I have a need to be able to search a folder structure for a file or a folder. I looked at Class File. I could probably use this to find what I need but I am looking for a possibly better solution.
thanks

[Anonymous]

This might help:

 FileSystemView thisSystem = FileSystemView.getFileSystemView();
File C = thisSystem.createFileObject("/");
File [] filearray = thisSystem.getFiles(C, false);
for(int i = 0; i < filearray.length; i++)
{
System.out.println(filearray[i].getName());
} 

change "/" for "C:\" if you're under windoze
hope it helps

[Kelly Harris]

Thanks Harold A. Gim�nez
I ended up
<blockquote><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">code:
<pre>
/** ------------------------------------------------------------
findFolder
find a specific folder in a path?
------------------------------------------------------------
input:
path:Starting path to search for folder
folder:The folder name to process.
@return
the full path to the specified folder w/o folder
------------------------------------------------------------ */
public String findFolder( String path, String folder)
{
String returnValue = null;
File f = new File(path);
String [] s;
s = f.list();
int counter;

// search this current folder before searchins sub folders
for (counter=0; counter < s.length; counter++)
{
if ( s[counter].compareToIgnoreCase( folder) == 0)
{
returnValue = path;
break;
} // if
//System.out.println( s [counter].toString());
} // for
// Search any sub folders.
if (returnValue == null)
for (counter=0; counter < s.length; counter++)
{
File test = new File( path + s[counter]);
if ( test.isDirectory() == true)
{
returnValue = findFolder( path + s[counter] + '\\', folder);
if (returnValue != null)
break;
} // if
//System.out.println( s [counter].toString());
} // for
return returnValue;
} // findFolder

</pre><hr>
</blockquote>
I was hoping that there was an already built in function to do a search. I am sure that I probably missed something.

[Kelly Harris]

Sorry all, I exepcted I could do some HTML code here. Oops.