The correct way to use FileVisitor in java

Question

I am trying to step through an entire path and its single layer of sub directories. For each file, I need to read five data fields and output them to a delimited text file.

Answer 1

Now to answer your revised post...

You have a bracket in the wrong place:

Files.walkFileTree(startPath, new SimpleFileVisitor(startPath) { 
      @Override
      public FileVisitResult visitFile(Path file, BasicFileAttributes attrs)
          throws IOException {
          Files.list(file);
          return FileVisitResult.CONTINUE;
      }
  });

I moved the bracket after new SimpleFileVisitor(startPath) to enclose the visitFile method. What you have here is an anonymous class - that's where you provide an implementation "on the fly".