Create new empty file

/*
  Create new empty file
  This Java example shows how to create new empty file at specified path using
  createNewFile method of Java File class.
*/
 
import java.io.*;
 
public class CreateNewEmptyFile {
 
  public static void main(String[] args) {
 
    //create File object
    File file = new File("C://demo.txt");
 
    /*
     * To actually create a file specified by a pathname, use
     * boolean createNewFile() method of Java File class.
     *
     * This method creates a new empty file specified if the file with same
     * name does not exists.
     *
     * This method returns true if the file with the same name did not exist and
     * it was created successfully, false otherwise.
     */
 
     boolean blnCreated = false;
     try
     {
       blnCreated = file.createNewFile();
     }
     catch(IOException ioe)
     {
       System.out.println("Error while creating a new empty file :" + ioe);
     }
 
     System.out.println("Was file " + file.getPath() + " created ? : " + blnCreated);
 
     /*
      * If you run the same program 2 times, first time it should return true.
      * But when we run it second time, it returns false because file was already
      * exist.
      */
  }
}
 
/*
Output would be
Was file C:\demo.txt created ? : true
*/