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Thanks for the clarification/confirmation. Am I right that your
>Hi Bill,
>
>The listFiles() method of File is not guaranteed to return the files
>in any specific order. On my Mac, it actually does return them in
>case-insensitive alphabetical order, but that behavior is specifically
>documented as not being guaranteed. And judging from your experience,
>it's clearly platform-specific.
>
>Anyway, you can sort the resulting file list with Arrays.sort. For example:
>
>File[] list = new File(".").listFiles();
>Arrays.sort(list);
>for (int i=0; i<list.length; i++) System.out.println(list[i]);
>
>-Curtis
>
>On Nov 21, 2007 11:18 AM, Bill Mohler <
[hidden email]> wrote:
>> This question is related to a plugin we use in ImageJ, but is more
>> directly related to Java on the Mac.
>>
>> Our program calls up and acts upon a list of alphabetically ordered files
>> from a directory. When run on Windows, it addresses these files in the
>> appropriate alphabetical order. But on Mac, it does them in a somewhat
>> random order. These are the exact same files from the exact same
>> directory on our server, in each case.
>>
>> If we list the files in the directory through a Unix shell on the Mac,
>> using the -f option for unsorted list, we get the exact same "random"
>> order that our program accesses when running on the Mac.
>>
>> The question, then, is what the proper Java code should be on the Mac so
>> that we get an alphabetically sorted list of files for our program to
>> access in order. And why would the Java code for a file list work right
>> on Windows and not on Mac?
>>
>> Thanks for any advice,
>> Bill
>>