File Renaming Program

Hi everyone,
I'm currently creating a java program to rename the files in my directory from a format to another format.
Eg. from "10 Mar 2005" to ""20050310"
The purpose to let me sort the files in chornological order. Is there any codes online that I can reference?

Actaully i wanna rename them in the format"yymmdd"
so that when i sort according to name in thewindow
explorer, it'll be in chornological order. Hence,I
need a program to automatically rename them inthis
format. You are aware that current Windows allows you to add
and delete columns from the Explorer display
(right-click in the column header), and that you can
sort by any column by clicking the column name?Ya I know that. But it doesn't sort the files in chronological order using the file name

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I couldn't find anything particularly wrong with your original code, though. Perhaps your if block at the bottom of your loop isn't behaving the way you think it should? Try using a debugger to verify that it enters the loop properly.
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I'm a student in Computer Science major; currently taking CS 2; java.
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