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Gary Gregory commented on LANG-382:
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Sure, you can create a new ticket for the IO project. We'll close this one
unless someone else pipes up.
> Retrieve Directory File List in Timestamp Order
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> Key: LANG-382
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LANG-382
> Project: Commons Lang
> Issue Type: New Feature
> Environment: Java SE 5. Windows and SuSe Linux.
> Reporter: Al Scherer
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> I searched your current Commons-Lang issues/feature requests and did not find
> the following so I'd like to propose it as a feature request.
> Given a filename filter and dir name, the new method would return a
> List<File> of the files that match the filter in last-modified timestamp
> order.
> I've not found code out there that does this.
> Sun explicitly does not - from the Sun Java SE 5 API Javadocs, File's
> listFiles() method descriptions include the following disclaimer:
> "There is no guarantee that the name strings in the resulting array
> will appear in any specific order; they are not, in particular, guaranteed to
> appear in alphabetical order."
> I needed the files in last-modified order so I wrote code to do it. I would
> be glad to share the code with the commons project if you feel it would be
> worthwhile. The signature would be:
> - public List<File> getFileListModifiedTimestampOrder(FilenameFilter filter,
> String dirName)
> I've already written, tested and used code to do this.
> There are additional flavors that might be worthwhile, too.
> - public List<File> getFileListModifiedTimestampOrderReversed(FilenameFilter
> filter, String dirName)
> - public List<File> getFileListNameOrder(FilenameFilter filter, String
> dirName)
> - public List<File> getFileListNameOrderReversed(FilenameFilter filter,
> String dirName)
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