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

The Apache filter is built for iterating files in a known directory. To allow wildcards in the directory also, you would have to split the path on '\' or '/' and do a filter on each part separately.