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

Why not use do something like:

File myRelativeDir = new File("../../foo");
String fullPath = myRelativeDir.getCanonicalPath();
Sting wildCard = fullPath + File.separator + "*.txt";

// now you have a fully qualified path

Then you won't have to worry about relative paths and can do your wildcarding as needed.