This section illustrates you how to get the file type. In the given example, we have create an instance of the class File and passed the file 'Hello.txt' to the constructor of this class.

Java get File Type

     

This section illustrates you how to get the file type. In the given example, we have create an instance of the class File and passed the file 'Hello.txt' to the constructor of this class. The method chooser.getTypeDescription(file) of class JFileChooser returns the file type.

 

 

 

Here is the code of GetFileType .java

import java.io.*; import javax.swing.*; class GetFileType {   public static void main(String[] args){     JFileChooser chooser = new JFileChooser();   File file = new File("Hello.txt");      String fileTypeName = chooser.getTypeDescription(file);   System.out.println("File Type= "+fileTypeName);   } }

Output will be displayed as:

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