Delete Files with same Prefix String using Java

Question

I have around 500 text files inside a directory with a same prefix in their filename say dailyReport_.

The latter part of the file is the date of the fi

Answer 1

Use FileFilter like so:

File dir = new File();
File[] toBeDeleted = dir.listFiles(new FileFilter() {
  boolean accept(File pathname) {
     return (pathname.getName().startsWith("dailyReport_08") && pathname.getName().endsWith(".txt"));
  } 

for (File f : toBeDeleted) {
   f.delete();
}