This is my code for simply creating a file instance. But my output is "File does not exist", which means that it's going through the catch block? I have PovertyData.txt in the sam folder as this program, so I am unsure why it does that

public static void main(String[] args){ File file = new File("PovertyData.txt"); //create file instance Scanner input = null; int lineNum = 0; ArrayList spopList = new ArrayList(); //initialize list of statepopulation PopProcess processor = new PopProcess(); try { input = new Scanner(file);//create instance of file scanner } catch (FileNotFoundException a){ System.out.println("File does not exist"); return; }