Random Access Files in Java

[clarisse]

I was wondering if there is an easy way to check if RAF exist like with sequential files with the .exists() method.

 

I checked in the Java Sun website and apparently there isn't so the only thing that occured to me was to get the file pointer (getFilePointer()) and if it is null then the file doesn't exist.

 

Any suggestions?

[foodchain]

I was wondering if there is an easy way to check if RAF exist like with sequential files with the .exists() method.

 

I checked in the Java Sun website and apparently there isn't so the only thing that occured to me was to get the file pointer (getFilePointer()) and if it is null then the file doesn't exist.

 

Any suggestions?

 

Here are two links that might help.

 

http://www.particle.kth.se/~lindsey/JavaCourse/Book/Part1/Supplements/Chapter09/randomAccess.html

 

http://java.sun.com/docs/books/tutorial/essential/io/rafs.html

 

If anything there is always exceptions, I mean there are entire families of them for anything software based, because they are not exceptions, just more programming:D