Trouble with File().mkdir()

Question

I don't know if this is the best forum for the question, if not, I'll be happy to repost it elsewhere.
Anyway, I'm trying to learn how to create a directory using Java. So I go to lookup various examples and and all of them seem to call File().mkdir(). That's great, except I can't get any code with that command to compile. The code I am trying to compile at the moment is:
import java.io.*;
import java.io.File.*;
class File
   public static void main(String args[])
      try
         String strDirectory ="test";
         // Create one directory
         boolean success = (new File(strDirectory).mkdir());
         if (success)
            System.out.println("Directory: " + strDirectory + " created");
      catch (Exception e)
         //Catch exception if any
         System.err.println("Error: " + e.getMessage());
}I keep getting the error:
File.java:13: cannot find symbol
symbol : constructor File(java.lang.String)
location: class File
boolean success = (new File(strDirectory).mkdir());
Any ideas?

Answer 1

To avoid ambiguity with your class which you named File you need to supply the namespace:
boolean success = (new java.io.File(strDirectory).mkdir());Also, for the imports:
// Gives you everything under java.io including File
import java.io.*;
// Gives you just File, not needed with above import
import java.io.File; // .* is not needed if it is the actually class and not a package