[VANILLA-L:1535] Java question

[Bob Tanner <tanner@real-time.com>]

I thought I knew Java, I guess that is my first mistake :-(

I am writing some Java code for the Vanilla web site and I have run
into a problem.

Example code will explain it best.

import java.io.*;
import java.util.Vector;

public class MailingList {

  public static void main(String[] argv) {
    MailingList list = new MailingList("/usr/local/tmp/vanilla");
  }

  public MailingList(String pathname) {
    File parent  = new File(pathname);
    File[] years = parent.listFiles();

listFiles() returns an array of File objects, how can I find out the
number of elements in the array?

A similar problems with the lists() method, it returns an array of
Strings of files and directories in the abstract pathname.

So, how do I step through these arrays without getting an Exception by
accessing out of bounds on the array?

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