Create temporary file in specified directory
- /*
- Create temporary file in specified directory
- This Java example shows how to create a new temporary file at specified path using
- createTempFile method of Java File class.
- */
- import java.io.*;
- public class CreateTempFileDirectory {
- public static void main(String[] args) {
- /*
- * To create temporary file at specified location use,
- * static File createTempFile(String namePrefix, String nameSuffix, File dir) method
- * of Java File class,
- *
- * where namePrefix is a prefix string used to generate
- * a file's name and must be atleast 3 characters long and nameSuffix is a
- * suffix string used to generate suffix of the temporary file name, may be null,
- * and in that case default ".tmp" will be used as a suffix. dir is the
- * directory under which the temporary file will be created.
- */
- File file = null;
- File dir = new File("C://FileIO");
- try
- {
- file = File.createTempFile("JavaTemp", ".javatemp", dir);
- }
- catch(IOException ioe)
- {
- System.out.println("Exception creating temporary file : " + ioe);
- }
- /*
- * Please note that if the directory does not exists, IOException will be
- * thrown and temporary file will not be created.
- */
- System.out.println("Temporary file created at : " + file.getPath());
- }
- }
- /*
- Typical output would be
- Temporary file created at : C:\FileIO\JavaTemp40534.javatemp
- */



