JAVA I/O

[Jerret Halter]

I am trying to work with deleting files and directories in Java 5 but have been unsuccessful. With the following code below a file and directory is created but I cannot delete them. Is there something I am doing wrong?

   
package learing.about.io;
 
import java.io.*;
 
class Writer2 {
public static void main(String[] args) {
char[] in = new char[50]; // to store input
int size = 0;
try {
File myDir = new File("temp");
System.out.println(myDir.isDirectory());
myDir.mkdir();

File myFile = new File(myDir, "myFile.txt");
myFile.createNewFile();
System.out.println(myFile.isFile());

FileReader fr = new FileReader(myFile);
BufferedReader br = new BufferedReader(fr);

String s;
while ((s = br.readLine()) != null){
System.out.println(s);
}


myFile.delete();
br.close();
} catch (IOException e) {
}
}
}
 

 

[Keith Lynn]

Remember that Windows locks files when they are open. Because you don't close the BufferedReader before you try to delete the file, it won't delete. Close the BufferedReader first, and it will delete.

[Jerret Halter]

Fantastic :-) Thank you for the help