OK, I'm feeling like this should be easy but am obviously missing something fundamental to file writing in Java. I have this:

File someFile = new File("someDirA/someDirB/someDirC/filename.txt");

and I just want to write to the file. However, while someDirA exists, someDirB (and therefore someDirC and filename.txt) do not exist. Doing this:

BufferedWriter writer = new BufferedWriter(new FileWriter(someFile));

throws a FileNotFoundException. Well, er, no kidding. I'm trying to create it after all. Do I need to break up the file path into components, create the directories and then create the file before instantiating the FileWriter object?