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From: Wojtek <nowhere@a.com>
Newsgroups: comp.lang.java.programmer
Subject: The first 10 files
Date: Sat, 26 Jan 2013 01:14:18 -0800
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Using:

int max = 10;
int count = 0;

for (File thisFile : aDir.listFiles())
{
  doSomething(thisFile);

  if ( ++count >= max )
    break;
}

gives me the first ten files in aDir. But if aDir contains 30K files, 
then the listFiles() will run for a long time as it builds an array for 
the 30K files.

Is there a way to have Java only get the first "max" files?

-- 
Wojtek :-)