How do I check if a file exists in Java?

Question

How can I check whether a file exists, before opening it for reading in Java (the equivalent of Perl\'s -e $filename

Answer 1

You can make it this way

import java.nio.file.Paths;

String file = "myfile.sss";
if(Paths.get(file).toFile().isFile()){
    //...do somethinh
}