FileNotFound exception when trying to write to a file
- by Chris Knight
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?
