Determine if a file can be written in Java

Description

The following code shows how to determine if a file can be written.

Example


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import java.io.File;

public class Main {
  public static void main(String[] args) {
    String filePath = "C:/Text.txt";
    File file = new File(filePath);

    if (file.canWrite()) {
      System.out.println("writable");
    } else {
      System.out.println("not writable");
    }
  }
}

The code above generates the following result.





















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