import java.io.BufferedReader;

import java.io.FileReader;

import java.io.IOException;

import java.util.ArrayList;

import java.util.List;

import java.util.HashMap;

import java.util.Map;

public class FilePathExtractor {

public static void main(String[] args) {

String configFilePath = "config.txt"; // Replace with your config file path

String outputFilePath = "extracted_paths.txt";

List<String> filePaths = extractFilePaths(configFilePath);

try (java.io.PrintWriter writer = new java.io.PrintWriter(outputFilePath)) {

for (String path : filePaths) {

writer.println(path);

}

} catch (IOException e) {

System.err.println("Error writing to file: " + e.getMessage());

}

}

public static List<String> extractFilePaths(String configFilePath) {

List<String> filePaths = new ArrayList<>();

Map<String, String> configMap = new HashMap<>();

try (BufferedReader reader = new BufferedReader(new FileReader(configFilePath))) {

String line;

while ((line = reader.readLine()) != null) {

// Assuming config format: key=value, where key is the file path

String[] parts = line.split("=");

if (parts.length == 2) {

String key = parts[0].trim();

String value = parts[1].trim(); //value is the file path

configMap.put(key, value);

}

}

} catch (IOException e) {

System.err.println("Error reading config file: " + e.getMessage());

return new ArrayList<>(); // Return empty list if error

}

filePaths.addAll(configMap.values()); // Add all file paths to the list

return filePaths;

}

}