How to Create File in Java

In this post we will see an example on how we can create file in java.
We will use the File.createNewFile() method.

File.createNewFile() creates a new empty file if a file doesn’t exists already in the given path.

createNewFile() returns “true” if file is created successfully.
If we try to create a file that already exists in the given path then createNewFile() returns false.

Example : Create File in java

package com.kscodes.sampleproject;

import java.io.File;
import java.io.IOException;

public class FileHandling {

	/**
	 * @param args
	 */
	public static void main(String[] args) throws IOException {

		createFile();
	}

	public static void createFile() throws IOException {

		File file = new File("C:\\testFile.txt");

		boolean fileCreated = file.createNewFile();

		if (fileCreated) {
			System.out.println("File created successfully");
		} else {
			System.out.println("File couldn't be created");
		}
	}

}

package com.kscodes.sampleproject;

import java.io.File;

import java.io.IOException;

public class FileHandling {

/**

* @param args

public static void main(String[] args) throws IOException {

createFile();

}

public static void createFile() throws IOException {

File file = new File("C:\\testFile.txt");

boolean fileCreated = file.createNewFile();

if (fileCreated) {

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

} else {

System.out.println("File couldn't be created");

}

When performing any operation on File, you will need to handle the IOException exception.

You can get more details on the File API here