I want to be able to scan all text files in a specified directory to look for a string. I know how to read through one text file. Thats quite easy but how do I make it scan all the content within a bunch of text files in a given directory?
The files will be all be named 0.txt 1.txt 2.txt etc, if that helps at all, perhaps using a counter to increase the name of the file searched then stopping it when there are no more txt files? that was my original idea but I can't seem to implement it
Thank you
You can use the following approach :
String dirName = "E:/Path_to_file";
File dir = new File(dirName);
File[] allFiles = dir.listFiles();
for(File file : allFiles)
{
// do something
}
This code snippet will do what you are looking for (possibly with a different charset of your choice):
File[] files = dir.listFiles();
for (File file : files) {
String t_text = new String(Files.readAllBytes(file.toPath()), StandardCharsets.UTF_8);
if (t_text.contains(search_string)) {
// do whatever you want
}
}
you could use this sample code to list all files under the directory
public File[] listf(String directoryName) {
// .............list file
File directory = new File(directoryName);
// get all the files from a directory
File[] fList = directory.listFiles();
}
And then after you retrieve each file, iterate through its lines with
LineIterator li = FileUtils.lineIterator(file);
boolean searchTermFound = false;
while(li.hasNext() && !searchTermFound) {
String sLine = li.next();
//Find the search term...
}
Methodcall: scanFiles(new File("").getAbsolutePath(), "bla");
private static void scanFiles(String folderPath, String searchString) throws FileNotFoundException, IOException {
File folder = new File(folderPath);
//just do something if its a directory (otherwise possible nullpointerex @ Files#listFiles())
if (folder.isDirectory()) {
for (File file : folder.listFiles()) {
// just scan for content if its not a directory (otherwise nullpointerex @ new FileReader(File))
if (!file.isDirectory()) {
BufferedReader br = new BufferedReader(new FileReader(file));
String content = "";
try {
StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder();
String line = br.readLine();
while (line != null) {
sb.append(line);
sb.append(System.lineSeparator());
line = br.readLine();
}
content = sb.toString();
} finally {
br.close();
}
if (content.contains(searchString)) {
System.out.println("File " + file.getName() + " contains searchString " + searchString + "!");
}
}
}
} else {
System.out.println("Not a Directory!");
}
}
Additional information:
you could pass a FilenameFilter to this methodcall folder.listFiles(new FilenameFilter(){...})
Try this:
public class FindAllFileFromDirectory {
static List<String> fileNames = new ArrayList<String>();
public static void main(String[] args) {
File AppDistributionDir = new File("<your directory path>");
if (AppDistributionDir.isDirectory()) {
listFilesForFolder(AppDistributionDir);
}
for (String s : fileNames) {
String fileExtension = FilenameUtils.getExtension(s); // import org.apache.commons.io.FilenameUtils;
//TODO: your condition hrere
if (s.equals("txt")) {
System.out.println(s);
}
}
}
public static void listFilesForFolder(final File folder) {
for (final File fileEntry : folder.listFiles()) {
if (fileEntry.isDirectory()) {
listFilesForFolder(fileEntry);
} else {
//System.out.println(fileEntry.getAbsolutePath());
fileNames.add(fileEntry.getName());
}
}
}
}
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