Delete Content of a File in Java

Question

Hi, I'm writing bytes to temp.fls file. After completing the operation, I want to delete the last 256 bytes from the temp.fls file. How can I achieve this? Please help me.

Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

Use RandomAccessFile.setLength() like so:

RandomAccessFile f = new RandomAccessFile(yourFile,"rw");
f.setLength(f.length()-256);