Java IO Examples : How To Determine File Or Directory In Java

Intro

This examples will demonstrates how to determine file or directory using Java program. To determine object of File is directory or not, you can use File.isFile() method. This method will return a boolean value. Return true if object is a file, otherwise object is a directory.

Examples

package com.freesamplecode.java.io;

import java.io.File;

public class DetermineFileOrDirectoryDemo {
 public static void main(String[] args){
  File file = new File("D:/temp");
  if(file.isFile()){
   System.out.println(file.getAbsolutePath() + " is a file");
  }else{
   System.out.println(file.getAbsolutePath() + " is a directory");
  }
 }
}

Output

D:\temp is a directory

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