exist

Checking whether a file exists is a fundamental task in programming, and Java provides several methods to accomplish this. One common approach is to use the ‘File’ class, which offers the ‘exists()’ method. This method returns a boolean value indicating whether the file exists in the specified path.

Another option is to use the ‘Files’ class from the ‘java.nio.file’ package. It offers more comprehensive file handling capabilities, including the ‘exists()’ method. This method takes a ‘Path’ object as an argument and returns a boolean value.

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