Java "new File()" does not create file

Question

This will be a really dumb question, but i can't seem to create a new file in java to save my life.

It always throws

java.io.FileNotFoundException: Users/username/Documents/testProject/test.txt (No such file or directory)

I have tried like this:

File newFile = new File("Users/username/Documents/testProject/test.txt");

and tried this:

File newFile = new File("/Users/username/Documents/testProject/test.txt");

What am i doing wrong?

Edit: apparently the issue wasn't there. I was trying to read from an empty file later on in the code, sorry folks.

Answer 1

new File("...") does not create a new file. It creates a new object (in memory) containing a filename. You can then perform operations like exists(), canRead() and isDirectory() on it, and you can invoke createNewFile() to create an actual file out of it.

Answer 2

Additionally to Mike's answer you will probably need to put double // rather than just a single / as it is used as an escaping sequence. I am not sure if this applies in every situation but in case you still get any errors try this.