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§2.26 Interface FilenameFilter

public  interface  java.io.FilenameFilter
{
        // Methods
    public abstract boolean accept(File  dir, String  name);	§2.26.1
}

Instances of classes that implement this interface are used to filter filenames. These instances are used to filter directory listings in the list method (I-§2.7.24) of class File (I-§2.7), and by the Abstract Window Toolkit's file dialog component (II-§1.15.13).


See Also:: File .

accept

public abstract boolean accept(File  dir, String  name)

Determines whether a specified file should be included in a file list.

Parameters:: dir -the directory in which the file was found; name -the name of the file
Returns:: true if name should be included in file list; false otherwise.

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