Delete File using Java

In continuation to my last post, Creating a File in Java, I am writing this post to show how to delete a file. It's very simple, you just use the delete() method of the File class and done. The method returns a boolean, true if the file is successfully deleted otherwise false. Here is an example:

package home.flicker.java.io.file;

import java.io.File;

/**

 * @author fLiCkEr

 * Example to show how to delete a file.

 */

public class FileDeletion {

  public static void main(String[] args) {

    try {

      File fileToDelete = new File("test.txt");

               if (fileToDelete.delete()) {

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

      } 

      else {

System.out.println("Can't delete file!!!");

      }

    } catch (Exception e) {

       System.out.println("Error deleting file: " + e.getMessage());

    }

  }

}