returnings of directory.getFiles

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Hello,
i work on a project that collecting files from a selected directory and placing the content of files into an SQL server. At this point i wonder whether directory.getfiles method can handle 400.000 files in a directory.Can i obtain the returning of directroy.getfiles method for 400.000 files and store the returnings into a string variable.

Does this cause overflow error with default settings , or how can i hande this situation?

Thanks in advance.

Posted 29-Mar-10 23:02pm

deniz79s

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Christian Graus · Answer 1 · 2010-03-29T23:17:00

9 out of 10 intelligent people would test to see if this worked, instead of assuming that some random stranger would know the answer, and trusting an answer from someone they don't know when it's trivial to test for the answer yourself. I suspect it will work fine, given that all it returns is an array of filenames.

Why on earth do you expect to have that many files in a folder ?

**Kunal Chowdhury «IN»** · Answer 2 · 2010-03-30T00:06:00

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Why don't you try it? This will be a collection of strings. I don't think there will be any performance or overflow issue at all.

Posted 30-Mar-10 0:06am

Kunal Chowdhury «IN»