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Java File question

Is there a better way to get a file handle w/o using File file = new File(fileName);?

Is there a way to directly delete? or a better way to instantiate?
take a peek at the code below

Iterator it = rynList.iterator();

            boolean answer=false;
            boolean file_exists=false;
            try{
            while (it.hasNext())
            {
                  RData ryno = (RData)it.next();


                  Iterator fileIterator = ryno.getId().iterator();


                  while (fileIterator.hasNext())
                  {
                        String fileName = (String)fileIterator.next();


                        File file = new File(fileName);
                        file_exists=file.exists();
                        if (file_exists)
                        {
                              answer=file.delete();
                        }
                  }
            }
      }
            catch(Exception e)
            {
                  e.printStackTrace();


            }

thanks
ryno71

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ryno71

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not me :) another developer questioned the using new. I've looked for another way but I dont know of one...

File file = new File(fileName);

ryno71

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thanks

StillUnAware

If You wonder if the usage of new creates a lot of objects and later uses the memory, then there is no need to worry, cause the garbage collection will free the unreferrenced memory blocks automatically.

Thanks for the points.