How do I list all files in a subdirectory in scala?

Question

Is there a good \"scala-esque\" (I guess I mean functional) way of recursively listing files in a directory? What about matching a particular pattern?

For example re

Answer 1

You can use tail recursion for it:

object DirectoryTraversal {
  import java.io._

  def main(args: Array[String]) {
    val dir = new File("C:/Windows")
    val files = scan(dir)

    val out = new PrintWriter(new File("out.txt"))

    files foreach { file =>
      out.println(file)
    }

    out.flush()
    out.close()
  }

  def scan(file: File): List[File] = {

    @scala.annotation.tailrec
    def sc(acc: List[File], files: List[File]): List[File] = {
      files match {
        case Nil => acc
        case x :: xs => {
          x.isDirectory match {
            case false => sc(x :: acc, xs)
            case true => sc(acc, xs ::: x.listFiles.toList)
          }
        }
      }
    }

    sc(List(), List(file))
  }
}