Java File Delete delete(File file)

Description

Deletes the file.

License

Apache License

Exception

Parameter	Description
IOException	when there is a problem deleting the file

Return

true if the file was deleted... false if it did not exist in the first place

Declaration

public static boolean delete(File file) throws IOException 

Method Source Code

//package com.java2s;
/*/*from  w  w  w .  j  a  v a 2 s .  c  o m*/
 * Copyright (c) 2012 Yan Pujante
 *
 * Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may not
 * use this file except in compliance with the License. You may obtain a copy of
 * the License at
 *
 * http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
 *
 * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
 * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT
 * WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. See the
 * License for the specific language governing permissions and limitations under
 * the License.
 */

import java.io.File;
import java.io.IOException;

public class Main {
    /**
     * Deletes the file.
     *
     * @return <code>true</code> if the file was deleted... <code>false</code> if it did not
     * exist in the first place
     * @throws IOException when there is a problem deleting the file
     */
    public static boolean delete(File file) throws IOException {
        if (!file.exists())
            return false;

        if (!file.delete())
            throw new IOException("cannot delete the file: " + file);

        return true;
    }
}

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