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viniciussss
viniciussss

Reputation: 4652

Is there a reason to get the file name of a path before converting it to a file?

Someone answered one of my questions using path.getFileName().toFile() instead of just path.toFile(). Is there a reason for that or should I use just path.toFile()?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 44

Answers (1)

talex
talex

Reputation: 20455

In your specific situation it was path.getFileName().toFile().getName() in this case path.toFile().getName() will give you same result.

But generally speaking path.getFileName().toFile() and path.toFile() will return different files.

Here small example.

    Path path =  FileSystems.getDefault().getPath("foo", "bar", "buzz");
    System.out.println(path.getFileName().toFile());
    System.out.println(path.toFile());

Which give us

buzz
foo\bar\buzz

Upvotes: 1

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