Java better way to delete file if exists

Question

We need to call file.exists() before file.delete() before we can delete a file E.g.

 File file = ...;
 if (file.exists()){
     fil         


        

Answer 1

There's also the Java 7 solution, using the new(ish) Path abstraction:

Path fileToDeletePath = Paths.get("fileToDelete_jdk7.txt");
Files.delete(fileToDeletePath);

Hope this helps.