Check the attributes of a file or folde

Make a new directory

This function tries to locate a file in a give folder (either single level, or in any sub folder). Returns the relative file and path, or FALSE if not found. Skips over "." and "..".

This function takes a directory, and a "folder" search parameter.
If it finds the directory (either in single level, or any sub folder) it will return the relative path of that folder. "FALSE" if not found. Skips over files and "." and ".." directories. Recursive by default.

If you only want to compare yyyy-mm-dd you can use the java.sql.Date class, the valueOf method does the trick. It's perfectly safe as the sql Date class is a subclass of the Date class.

Check out the docs here for more detail.

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This is a very convenient way to remove all doubles from a List in Java. The only prerequisite is that the elements in the list have proper equals and hashCode methods.

It work by using the constructor of a Set that takes a Collection as an argument.

I poured the snippet in a little program so can run it straight away.

A GroovyClassLoader demonstration. The given domain is a german water flow meter system; I think, you shouldn't be able to understand the domain, but you should be able to understand, how to load a Groovy class in Java via a GroovyClassLoader.

From a tutorial on building an RSS SAX parser on my website:

full article can be found here

Walks every subdirectory starting from [initial_dir] and deletes every file in it that contains in its filename a [string]

Class method to read a binary file and copy it to a byte array.