We have existing files with "&" in file names and want to use java.io.File,
for instance the method list(). In this case, list doesn't return the directory entries. Escaping "&" with "\&" doesn't help. Thank you.
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http://stackoverflow.com/questions/893977/java-how-to-find-out-whether-a-file-name-is-valid – Kai Sternad Dec 25 '11 at 23:48
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Please list a small but runnable code snippet showing the behaviour you describe. – Thorbjørn Ravn Andersen Dec 26 '11 at 09:01
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It works fine for me on Mac OSX. Please post your code illustrating the problem.
$ touch a\&b
$ touch c\ \&b
$ ls
a&b c &b
$ scala
scala> import java.io.File
import java.io.File
scala> new File(".").list()
res0: Array[java.lang.String] = Array(a&b, c &b)
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