The Java Developers Almanac 1.4

e22. Deleting a File

    boolean success = (new File("filename")).delete();
    if (!success) {
        // Deletion failed
    }

Related Examples

e19. Determining If a File or Directory Exists
e20. Creating a File
e1071. Copying a File
e21. Getting the Size of a File
e23. Creating a Temporary File
e24. Renaming a File or Directory
e25. Moving a File or Directory to Another Directory
e26. Getting and Setting the Modification Time of a File or Directory
e27. Forcing Updates to a File to the Disk

See also: Directories    Encodings    Filenames and Pathnames    Parsing    Reading and Writing    Serialization

© 2002 Addison-Wesley.