How to delete given file in Java?

Problem Description :

Write a program in Java that deletes a given file.

How to delete a given file in Java?

Concept :

Here I am assuming that file is present in current working directory. For deleting given file we need to use below method of File class that is present in java.io.* package.

public boolean delete()

Java Program :

package com.javamultiplex.FileHandling; import java.io.File; import java.io.IOException; import java.util.Scanner; /** * @author Rohit Agarwal * @category File Handling * @problem How to delete given file in Java? * */ public class DeleteFile { public static void main(String[] args) throws IOException { Scanner input = null; try { input = new Scanner(System.in); System.out.println("Enter file name with extension : "); String fileName = input.nextLine(); if (isValidFileName(fileName)) { //file is present in current working directory. File file = new File(fileName); if (file.exists()) { boolean deleted = file.delete(); if (deleted) { System.out.println("File is deleted successfully."); } else { System.out.println("Some error occured. Try again!!"); } } else { System.out.println("File is not present in current directory."); } } else { System.out.println("File name is not valid."); } } finally { if (input != null) { input.close(); } } } private static boolean isValidFileName(String fileName) { //Regular expression that checks whether given file name is valid or not. String pattern = "^.+\\..+$"; boolean result = false; if (fileName.matches(pattern)) { result = true; } return result; } }

Output :

Output - Deletion of given file

After deletion of "demo.txt" file

Output of Java program that deletes a given file - case 2

Output - After deletion of file

References :

https://docs.oracle.com/javase/7/docs/api/java/io/File.html#delete()

https://docs.oracle.com/javase/7/docs/api/java/io/File.html#exists()

https://docs.oracle.com/javase/7/docs/api/java/lang/String.html

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Tags : File Handling, delete given file, if else, Scanner, File, String, Regular Expressions, java.io, delete(), exists().

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