Java Delete File deleteFile(String filename)

Description

Delete a file

License

Open Source License

Parameter

Parameter	Description
filename	(to delete)

Return

true if success

Declaration

public static boolean deleteFile(String filename) 

Method Source Code

//package com.java2s;
/*//w  w w  . j a  v  a2 s .  c o m
 *  Armadillo Workflow Platform v1.0
 *  A simple pipeline system for phylogenetic analysis
 *  
 *  Copyright (C) 2009-2011  Etienne Lord, Mickael Leclercq
 *
 *  This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
 *  it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
 *  the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
 *  (at your option) any later version.
 * 
 *  This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
 *  but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
 *  MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the 
 *  GNU General Public License for more details.
 *
 *  You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
 *  along with this program.  If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
 */

import java.io.File;

import java.io.PrintWriter;

public class Main {
    public PrintWriter log;
    public boolean log_open = false;

    /**
    * Delete a file
    * @param filename (to delete)
    * @return true if success
    */
    public static boolean deleteFile(String filename) {
        System.out.println("Deleting " + filename);
        try {
            File outtree = new File(filename);
            if (outtree.exists())
                outtree.delete();
        } catch (Exception e) {
            return false;
        }
        return true;
    }

    public void println(String str) {
        if (log_open)
            log.println(str);
    }
}

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