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How do I check if a file exists in Java?

Anonymous User 1747 02-Aug-2015

How can I check whether a file exists, before opening it for reading in Java? (equivalent of Perl's -e $filename).

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Updated on 03-Aug-2015

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03-Aug-2015

Use java.io :

File f = new File(filePathString);
if(f.exists() && !f.isDirectory()) { /* do something */ }