Instances of classes that implement this interface are used to filter filenames. These instances are used to filter directory listings in the list method of class File, and by the Abstract Window Toolkit's file dialog component.
@author
Arthur van Hoff
@author
Jonathan Payne
@version
1.23, 12/19/03
@since
JDK1.0
See Also
java.awt.FileDialog#setFilenameFilter(java.io.FilenameFilter) , java.io.File , java.io.File#list(java.io.FilenameFilter)
Tests if a specified file should be included in a file list.
Parameters
dirthe directory in which the file was found.
namethe name of the file.
Return
true if and only if the name should be included in the file list; false otherwise.