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

I agree with BegemoT.

However, just one optimization: If you need a simple FilenameFilter, there is a class in the Google packages. So, in this case you do not even have to create your own anonymous class.

import com.google.common.io.PatternFilenameFilter;

final File folder = ...
final File[] files = folder.listFiles(new PatternFilenameFilter("dailyReport_08.*\\.txt"));

// loop through the files
for ( final File file : files ) {
    if ( !file.delete() ) {
        System.err.println( "Can't remove " + file.getAbsolutePath() );
    }
}

Enjoy !