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Compliant Solution (Java 1.7)

Wiki MarkupThis compliant solution uses the {{Files.delete()}} method from Java 1.7 to delete the file.

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Path file = new File("file").toPath();
try {
  Files.delete(file);
} catch (IOException x) {
  // handle error
}

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The Javaâ¢ SE 7 Documentation to delete the file. \[[J2SE 2011\|AA. Bibliography#J2SE 11]\] defines {{Files.delete()}} to throw the following exceptions:

Exception	Reason
`NoSuchFileException`	if the file File does not exist
`DirectoryNotEmptyException`	if the file File is a directory and could not otherwise be deleted because the directory is not empty
`IOException`	if an An I/O error occurs
`SecurityException`	In the case of the default provider, and a security manager is installed, the `SecurityManager.checkDelete(String)` method is invoked to check delete access to the file

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Path file = new File("file").toPath();
try {
  Files.delete(file);
} catch (IOException x) {
  // handle error
}

Failure to check the return values of methods that perform file I/O can result in unexpected behavior.

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[API 2006]	`File.delete()`
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