/*
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
*/
