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The File Class
Listing Files and Directories
Listing with Filtration

If you wanted to learn how to read and write files from Java, you might be tempted to look first at the class File.

It turns out that you do not use class File to read and write files, but it is a useful class that represents a file or a directory.   Here are some details about what it can do...