How to list all json files in a directory?

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Godot Version

4.5.1

Question

I know how to read and write to specific .json files, but i would like the user to get a list to select what json file to load, for that i need a way to scan a directory for files and list the filenames. As i understand it DirAccess.get_files() only works on files allready present when the game is compiled so it can't accept user generated files.

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This is not true, you can very much use this to get files in other directories, not just the res:// folder. I don’t know where these Json files would be, but you can use get_files to get a list of files, then simply use the string’s get_extension method, as seen here: String — Godot Engine (stable) documentation in English

Here’s a very simple example:

func _ready() -> void:
	var items = DirAccess.get_files_at("/home/tib/")
	for item in items:
		if item.get_extension() == "json":
			print(item)
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Thank you, this helped greatly.

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