The Java Developers Almanac 1.4


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e22. Deleting a File

    boolean success = (new File("filename")).delete();
    if (!success) {
        // Deletion failed
    }

 Related Examples
e19. Determining If a File or Directory Exists
e20. Creating a File
e21. Getting the Size of a File
e23. Creating a Temporary File
e24. Renaming a File or Directory
e25. Moving a File or Directory to Another Directory
e26. Getting and Setting the Modification Time of a File or Directory
e27. Forcing Updates to a File to the Disk

See also: Directories    Encodings    Filenames and Pathnames    Parsing    Reading and Writing    Serialization   


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