How to get contents of a folder and put into an ArrayList

Question

I want to use

File f = new File(\"C:\\\\\");

to make an ArrayList with the contents of the folder.

I am not very good with buffered

Answer 1

If you want to retrieve all the files recursively, you can do something like below

public class FileLister {

    static List fileList = new ArrayList();

    public static void main(String[] args) {
        File file = new File("C:\\tmp");
        listDirectory(file);
        System.out.println(fileList);
    }

    public static void listDirectory(File file) {
        if(file.isDirectory()) {
            File[] files = file.listFiles();
            for(File currFile : files) {
                listDirectory(currFile);
            }
        }
        else {
            fileList.add(file.getPath());
        }
    }
}