Creating a file in Java

Until now, the posts I wrote were on setting up development environment but for the first time I am gonna write something about coding. It's a simple tutorial on how to create files in Java. It's nothing fancy but just a point for me to start and take you into a bit of programming. So let's get started. 

There are many times when you need a file during development may be to write some data (could be a txt or csv or your own format). It's very simple to create a file. You simply need to use the File class from the Java IO. It has many methods and one of them is File.createNewFile().

The steps are: 

1. Create a File object: 

   
   File fileToCreate = new File("nameOfFile");

2. The second step is to create the file:
   

   
   fileToCreate.creatNewFile() 

And that's all. Here is example code:

package home.flicker.java.io.file;

import java.io.File;

import java.io.IOException;

import java.util.Scanner;

/**

 * @author flicker

 * Example to create a file with user given name.

 */

public class FileCreation {

  public static void main(String[] args) {

    Scanner scanner = new Scanner(System.in);

    System.out.println("Enter name of File you want to create: ");

    String fileName = scanner.next();

    File fileToCreate = new File(fileName);

    try {

if(fileToCreate.createNewFile()){

       System.out.println("File created!!!");

      }

else{

       System.out.println("Can't create new file as it already exists!!!");

}

    } catch (IOException e) {

System.out.println("Error while creating file!!! " + e.getMessage());

    }

  }

}

Here is a screen-shot of the output:

The example code is pretty simple and self explanatory. Share your issues or confusions. 

I will be posting more on File reading, writing and other file related operations.