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Re: Disappearing files.

Greg Guerin wrote:
Don't use literal "/". Use File.separator, or better yet:

This is technically correct, of course, but I'm curious: are there any current Java 1.4+ platforms where / doesn't work? It's certainly valid, both at native level and in Java, on all three desktop platforms (OS X, Windows since 95, Linux/BSD/etc). Maybe there are some obscure ones?

Totally agree about checking the return value though - those functions are lethal. I wish Sun would change them - obviously they can't literally change them but they could deprecate them and make differently-named safe variants. (Maybe they already did in some newer version? I'm sticking with 1.5 for the moment... fingers crossed.)

(Other favourite evil file function: listFiles or whatever it's called. Returns null instead of empty array when there aren't any. Eeeeevil.)

--sam

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