Java Is File Newer isNewerOrEqual(String newFile, String oldFile)

Description

is Newer Or Equal

License

Open Source License

Declaration

public static boolean isNewerOrEqual(String newFile, String oldFile) 

Method Source Code

//package com.java2s;
/*************************************************************************
 * Clus - Software for Predictive Clustering                             *
 * Copyright (C) 2007                                                    *
 *    Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Leuven, Belgium                    *
 *    Jozef Stefan Institute, Ljubljana, Slovenia                        *
 *                                                                       *
 * 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/>. *
 *                                                                       *
 * Contact information: <http://www.cs.kuleuven.be/~dtai/clus/>.         *
 *************************************************************************/

import java.io.*;

public class Main {
    public static boolean isNewerOrEqual(String newFile, String oldFile) {
        File newF = new File(newFile);
        File oldF = new File(oldFile);
        if (!newF.exists())
            return false;
        if (!oldF.exists())
            return true;
        return newF.lastModified() >= oldF.lastModified();
    }//from  w  ww.jav  a2 s.  c om
}

Related

1. isNewer(File file, File reference)
2. isNewer(File file1, File file2)
3. isNewer(String file, String reference)