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Commons IO example source code file (RegexFileFilter.java)

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Java - Commons IO tags/keywords

abstractfilefilter, abstractfilefilter, illegalargumentexception, illegalargumentexception, io, iocase, override, pattern, pattern, regex, regexfilefilter, regexfilefilter, serializable, string

The Commons IO RegexFileFilter.java source code

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package org.apache.commons.io.filefilter;

import java.io.File;
import java.io.Serializable;
import java.util.regex.Pattern;

import org.apache.commons.io.IOCase;

/**
 * Filters files using supplied regular expression(s).
 * <p/>
 * See java.util.regex.Pattern for regex matching rules
 * <p/>
 *
 * <p/>
 * e.g.
 * <pre>
 * File dir = new File(".");
 * FileFilter fileFilter = new RegexFileFilter("^.*[tT]est(-\\d+)?\\.java$");
 * File[] files = dir.listFiles(fileFilter);
 * for (int i = 0; i < files.length; i++) {
 *   System.out.println(files[i]);
 * }
 * </pre>
 *
 * @author Oliver Siegmar
 * @version $Revision: 659817 $
 * @since Commons IO 1.4
 */
public class RegexFileFilter extends AbstractFileFilter implements Serializable {

    /** The regular expression pattern that will be used to match filenames */
    private final Pattern pattern;

    /**
     * Construct a new regular expression filter.
     *
     * @param pattern regular string expression to match
     * @throws IllegalArgumentException if the pattern is null
     */
    public RegexFileFilter(String pattern) {
        if (pattern == null) {
            throw new IllegalArgumentException("Pattern is missing");
        }

        this.pattern = Pattern.compile(pattern);
    }

    /**
     * Construct a new regular expression filter with the specified flags case sensitivity.
     *
     * @param pattern regular string expression to match
     * @param caseSensitivity  how to handle case sensitivity, null means case-sensitive
     * @throws IllegalArgumentException if the pattern is null
     */
    public RegexFileFilter(String pattern, IOCase caseSensitivity) {
        if (pattern == null) {
            throw new IllegalArgumentException("Pattern is missing");
        }
        int flags = 0;
        if (caseSensitivity != null && !caseSensitivity.isCaseSensitive()) {
            flags = Pattern.CASE_INSENSITIVE;
        }
        this.pattern = Pattern.compile(pattern, flags);
    }

    /**
     * Construct a new regular expression filter with the specified flags.
     *
     * @param pattern regular string expression to match
     * @param flags pattern flags - e.g. {@link Pattern#CASE_INSENSITIVE}
     * @throws IllegalArgumentException if the pattern is null
     */
    public RegexFileFilter(String pattern, int flags) {
        if (pattern == null) {
            throw new IllegalArgumentException("Pattern is missing");
        }
        this.pattern = Pattern.compile(pattern, flags);
    }

    /**
     * Construct a new regular expression filter for a compiled regular expression
     *
     * @param pattern regular expression to match
     * @throws IllegalArgumentException if the pattern is null
     */
    public RegexFileFilter(Pattern pattern) {
        if (pattern == null) {
            throw new IllegalArgumentException("Pattern is missing");
        }

        this.pattern = pattern;
    }

    /**
     * Checks to see if the filename matches one of the regular expressions.
     *
     * @param dir   the file directory
     * @param name  the filename
     * @return true if the filename matches one of the regular expressions
     */
    @Override
    public boolean accept(File dir, String name) {
        return (pattern.matcher(name).matches());
    }

}

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