Deleting random access file in java

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Harshit Agarwal picture Harshit Agarwal · Sep 26, 2010 · Viewed 7.4k times · Source

I've created a random access file as follows:

 RandomAccessFile aFile = null;
 aFile = new RandomAccessFile(NetSimView.filename, "rwd");

I want to delete the file "afile". can anyone suggest me how to do it?

Answer

Romain Linsolas picture Romain Linsolas · Sep 26, 2010

You can do that:

File f = new File(NetSimView.filename);
f.delete();

Edit, regarding your comment:

The parameter NetSimView.filename seems to be a File and not a String that contains the path to the file. So simply do:

NetSimView.filename.delete();

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