How to get contents of a folder and put into an ArrayList

Question

I want to use

File f = new File("C:\\"); 

to make an ArrayList with the contents of the folder.

I am not very good with buffered readers, so please tell me if that is better.

Here's the code I have so far:

import java.io.BufferedReader; import java.io.File; import java.io.FileReader; import java.io.IOException;   public class buffered_read { public static void main(String[] args) {     File f = new File("C:\\");     int x = 0;     boolean b = true;     File list[];     while(b = true){      } } } 

Thanks, obiedog

Answer 1

The easiest way of doing that is:

File f = new File("C:\\"); ArrayList<File> files = new ArrayList<File>(Arrays.asList(f.listFiles())); 

And if what you want is a list of names:

File f = new File("C:\\"); ArrayList<String> names = new ArrayList<String>(Arrays.asList(f.list()));