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Day-to-day Programming 1: File names into a text file

How to get the names of the files in a specific directory (folder)  to a text file?

Today my mother asked me to write some MP3s into a DVD. There were nearly 200 MP3 files.
and she also asked me to number them and make a list of file names to print out.

I was like o.O how am I going to do that? type all 200 file names into a document? I felt lazy and thought why can't I write a program that will do it for me !. so I wrote a simple program that gets file names and writes them into a text file, so I can print them out. This is the simple program I wrote. It took less than 2 minutes to write it. and saved a considerable amount of time!  ;)

1:  import java.io.BufferedWriter;  
2:  import java.io.File;  
3:  import java.io.FileWriter;  
4:  import java.io.IOException;  
5:    
6:  public class FilenamesToTxt {  
7:       public static void main(String[] args) throws IOException {  
8:            File folder = new File("C:/My Folder");  
9:            BufferedWriter bf = new BufferedWriter(new FileWriter(  
10:                      "C:/filenames.txt"));  
11:    
12:            for (File f : folder.listFiles()) {  
13:                 bf.write(f.getName() + "\r\n");  
14:            }  
15:            bf.close();  
16:       }  
17:  }  

I made a little GUI with the above code in case if I needed that later. If you like to try you can download this and try it your self :) I've included the source code, a jar file, and executable file of this GUI

Click here to Download Fnames2txt.zip


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