Java Bug? "new File(...)" deletes file?

[b4u]

Hi,

I'm using Eclipse 3.1 and have J2SDK 5.0 installed on my computer.

My question is:

When using the code:

import java.io.File;

String fileName = "c:/x/anyfile.txt";
File f = new File(fileName);

Instead of just creating an instance of File using the name I provided, the code just deletes it entirely from the disc ... any bug, or is there anything obvious I'm missing?

Thanks

 

[Thyme]

Interesting. Sure nothing else in the code is doing it? Post complete code?

 

[znaps]

I doubt that's happening, at least by the code that you posted - creating a File object in itself doesn't do anything.

 

[kamper]

That's definitely odd 😛 a File object has no actual connection to the file system.

 

[b4u]

AH! Found the code that was doing the dirty job!

Nothing better than take some time off, and return latter to find those difficult problems that are in front of our eyes and we just can't find ...

Better open my eyes at work lol

Thanks for listening 🙂