How to find files that match a wildcard string in Java?

Question

This should be really simple. If I have a String like this:

../Test?/sample*.txt

then what is a generally-accepted way to get a list of fil

Answer 1

Consider DirectoryScanner from Apache Ant:

DirectoryScanner scanner = new DirectoryScanner();
scanner.setIncludes(new String[]{"**/*.java"});
scanner.setBasedir("C:/Temp");
scanner.setCaseSensitive(false);
scanner.scan();
String[] files = scanner.getIncludedFiles();

You'll need to reference ant.jar (~ 1.3 MB for ant 1.7.1).