Re: File.renameTo() doesn't update object

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From: Torsten Welches
Date: Mon, 07 May 2001 06:07

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Owen,

a File instances represents merely a file's name, not the file
itself. While I agree that it's not that intuitive it's somewhat
consistent to how the File class works.

Torsten

"Owen Green" <owen@norobots.unique.com> wrote:
>or so it seems....
>
>When I call File.renameTo(), the file is indeed renamed on disk , but the
>object still returns the same values as before for getAbsaloutePath() etc.
>Does this mean that I should be retaining a reference to the file object I
>passed with the new file name?
>
>Is this behaviour docmented anywhere, and moreover, why does it behave this
>way??

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