CREATE a file...

[rjlohan]

Does Java actually have support for file creation. I've not been having a good time with I/O when a file doesn't exist...

[Dillinger4]

This might help you out. Be sure to import java.io.* or java.io.File into your app though.

public static void create(){
     // if directory already exists mkdir() will just return false and the directory 
     // will not be overwritten.           
    try{                   
      File dir = new File("C:\\InitialDirectory");
       dir.mkdir();
        File f = new File("\\Justatextfile.txt");
         f.createNewFile();
          File dest = new File("C:\\InitialDirectory\\" + f.getName());  
           f.renameTo(dest);
     }catch(IOException e){System.err.println(e);}
    }

[rjlohan]

Ok. Easy.
I just kept getting the impression that the
File f = new File("\\Justatextfile.txt");
line was raising a FileNotFound exception...

[Dillinger4]

The file dosn't actually have to be there in order to create a new file object. Certian streams will throw a FileNotFoundException if the if a nonexistent file is passed in as an arguement. Some classes like RandomAccessFile will throw a FileNotFoundException when in 'r' mode and the file does not exist. But will create a file if in 'rw'.

[CaptainPinko]

i think this works:

import java.io.*;

PrintWriter file = new Printwriter ( new OutputSteamWriter ( new FileOutputStream ("asdf.txt")));

some of those class names amybe wrong but that close enuff 4 u 2 fig it out