File constructor

Question

I'm trying to search in directories on my local machine, and in order to do so I'm trying to use the following code:
File myfile = new File("c:/temp");
When I compile this line of code I get following error:
Wrong number of arguments in constructor.
The only code the compiler (jdk1.3.1) will accept is File myfile = new File();, but how can I use that to specify a certain folder or file?
I get the same error message when I try to compile the following code, which I copied from the sun web site:
import java.io.*;
public class Copy {
public static void main(String[] args) throws IOException {
     File inputFile = new File("input.txt");
     File outputFile = new File("output.txt");
FileReader in = new FileReader(inputFile);
FileWriter out = new FileWriter(outputFile);
int c;
while ((c = in.read()) != -1)
out.write(c);
in.close();
out.close();
Thanks
Jens

Answer 1

there shouldn't be anything wrong with your code
The File-class has three constructors:
File(String pathname);
File(String parent, String child);
File(File parent, String child);
no no-argument constructor