Java有一个内置的方法来处理这个问题，在Java .nio.file. files类中，这可能适合你的需要:

File f = new File("/path/to/file/foo.txt");
String ext = Files.probeContentType(f.toPath());
if(ext.equalsIgnoreCase("txt")) do whatever;

注意，这个静态方法使用这里找到的规范来检索“内容类型”，而“内容类型”是可以变化的。

  @Test
    public void getFileExtension(String fileName){
      String extension = null;
      List<String> list = new ArrayList<>();
      do{
          extension =  FilenameUtils.getExtension(fileName);
          if(extension==null){
              break;
          }
          if(!extension.isEmpty()){
              list.add("."+extension);
          }
          fileName = FilenameUtils.getBaseName(fileName);
      }while (!extension.isEmpty());
      Collections.reverse(list);
      System.out.println(list.toString());
    }

这是一种经过测试的方法

public static String getExtension(String fileName) {
    char ch;
    int len;
    if(fileName==null || 
            (len = fileName.length())==0 || 
            (ch = fileName.charAt(len-1))=='/' || ch=='\\' || //in the case of a directory
             ch=='.' ) //in the case of . or ..
        return "";
    int dotInd = fileName.lastIndexOf('.'),
        sepInd = Math.max(fileName.lastIndexOf('/'), fileName.lastIndexOf('\\'));
    if( dotInd<=sepInd )
        return "";
    else
        return fileName.substring(dotInd+1).toLowerCase();
}

测试用例:

@Test
public void testGetExtension() {
    assertEquals("", getExtension("C"));
    assertEquals("ext", getExtension("C.ext"));
    assertEquals("ext", getExtension("A/B/C.ext"));
    assertEquals("", getExtension("A/B/C.ext/"));
    assertEquals("", getExtension("A/B/C.ext/.."));
    assertEquals("bin", getExtension("A/B/C.bin"));
    assertEquals("hidden", getExtension(".hidden"));
    assertEquals("dsstore", getExtension("/user/home/.dsstore"));
    assertEquals("", getExtension(".strange."));
    assertEquals("3", getExtension("1.2.3"));
    assertEquals("exe", getExtension("C:\\Program Files (x86)\\java\\bin\\javaw.exe"));
}

JFileChooser怎么样?这并不简单，因为你需要解析它的最终输出…

JFileChooser filechooser = new JFileChooser();
File file = new File("your.txt");
System.out.println("the extension type:"+filechooser.getTypeDescription(file));

这是一个MIME类型…

好吧……我忘了你不想知道它的MIME类型。

下面链接中的有趣代码: http://download.oracle.com/javase/tutorial/uiswing/components/filechooser.html

/*
 * Get the extension of a file.
 */  
public static String getExtension(File f) {
    String ext = null;
    String s = f.getName();
    int i = s.lastIndexOf('.');

    if (i > 0 &&  i < s.length() - 1) {
        ext = s.substring(i+1).toLowerCase();
    }
    return ext;
}

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只是一个基于正则表达式的替代方案。没那么快，也没那么好。

Pattern pattern = Pattern.compile("\\.([^.]*)$");
Matcher matcher = pattern.matcher(fileName);

if (matcher.find()) {
    String ext = matcher.group(1);
}

    private String getExtension(File file)
        {
            String fileName = file.getName();
            String[] ext = fileName.split("\\.");
            return ext[ext.length -1];
        }