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Creating a new file

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Creating a new file

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- In this example, I want to create a new file on my computer. I don't actually want to put anything in it at the moment, I just want it to exist. If I wanted to write something to a file, I would need to use either a file output stream or a file writer, but to simply create a file, I don't need to use these. In the main method of my file-creation example class, I will create a new file object called myFile. I'll put = new File(). Then I need to pass in the path of where I would like the file to be. For now, I will just put the file on my desktop, and I will call it myFile.txt. I also need to add input statements to use File. If I run the program now, it builds successfully. However, I haven't actually created a file, I've just created a file object. This is just an abstract representation of a file. If I open my desktop folder, there is no file called myFile.txt. To create a file, I need to call another method, so I need to do myFile.createNewFile(). I will also need to handle the…

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