How to make FilenameFilter return filenames according to time

Question

How do you get the list of filenames in a directory arranged according to the time modified, instead of listing in alphabetical order?
For example, I have:
FILENAME TIME
bfile.txt 08/30/2002 07:00
cfile.txt 08/30/2002 09:00
afile.txt 08/30/2002 10:00
The code I used is:
import java.io.*;
public class RetrieveFileList {
  public static void main(String args[]){
    File directory = new File("C:\\folders\\test\\");
    FNameFilter filter = new FNameFilter();
    String[] fileList = directory.list(filter);
    System.out.println("filelist count: "+fileList.length);
    for (int i=0; i<fileList.length ;i++){
      System.out.println(fileList);
class FNameFilter implements FilenameFilter {
public boolean accept(File dir, String name) {
boolean bAccept = false;
if ( name.endsWith(".txt") )
bAccept = true;
return bAccept;
When I use FilenameFilter and File.list(), the result is:
afile.txt
bfile.txt
cfile.txt
What do you do so that the result will be like:
bfile.txt
cfile.txt
afile.txt

Answer 1

Instead of String[] fileList = directory.list(filter);use File[] files = directory.listFiles(filter);
Arrays.sort(files,
            new Comparator()
                    public int compare(Object o1, Object o2)
                        File f1 = (File)o1;
                        File f2 = (File)o2;
                        return f1.lastModified() - f2.lastModified();
String[] fileList = new String[files.length];
for (int ii = 0; ii < files.length; ii++)
    fileList[ii] = files[ii].getName();
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