How to get last modified date of given file in Java?

Problem Description :

Write a program in Java that prints last modified date of given file.

How to get last modification date of given file in Java?

Concept :

It is more simple than getting file creation date of given file. We just need to use following method of File class that is present in java.io.* package.

public long lastModified() - It returns time in milliseconds, we need to convert this time into Date.

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Java Program :

	package com.javamultiplex.filehandling;
	import java.io.File;
	import java.io.IOException;
	import java.text.SimpleDateFormat;
	import java.util.Date;
	import java.util.Scanner;
	/**
	*
	* @author Rohit Agarwal
	* @category File Handling
	* @problem How to get last modified date of given file?
	*
	*/
	public class FileLastModifiedDate {
	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()) {
	long time = file.lastModified();
	String dateTime = getStringFromFileTime(time);
	System.out.println("Last modified date and time is : " + dateTime);
	} else {
	System.out.println("File doesn't exist in current directory.");
	}
	} else {
	System.out.println("File name is not valid.");
	}
	} finally {
	if (input != null) {
	input.close();
	}
	}
	}
	private static String getStringFromFileTime(long time) {
	Date date = new Date();
	// setting milliseconds.
	date.setTime(time);
	SimpleDateFormat dateFormat = new SimpleDateFormat("dd/MM/yyyy hh:mm:ss a");
	// Convert Date to String.
	String dateTime = dateFormat.format(date);
	return dateTime;
	}
	private static boolean isValidFileName(String fileName) {
	// Regular expression for validating file name.
	String pattern = "^.+\\..+$";
	boolean result = false;
	if (fileName.matches(pattern)) {
	result = true;
	}
	return result;
	}
	}

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Output :

Output - How to get last modification date of given file in Java?

References :

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

https://docs.oracle.com/javase/7/docs/api/java/io/File.html

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regular_expression

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Tags : File Handling, file last modified date/time, if else, Scanner, String, File, Date, SimpleDateFormat(), exists(), Regular expression, lastModified(), java.io.

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