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teddy
teddy

Reputation: 27

Convert from absolute to relative path

I would like to convert this relative path /home/cce2050/Music/part1/ints10000.dat to its absolute path. Can anybody suggest me the path?

public static String[] split() throws FileNotFoundException, IOException {

    BufferedReader reader = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(new FileInputStream("/home/cce2050/Music/part1/ints10000.dat")));

    String line;

    String[] aList = new String[10000];

    while ((line = reader.readLine()) != null) {

        aList = line.split("\\s+");

    }

    return aList;

}

Upvotes: 0

Views: 981

Answers (3)

armitus
armitus

Reputation: 748

If you're looking to convert a relative path to an absolute path, I would recommend using File.getCanonicalPath() You can see the docs on it here. Additionally, you can read a little more about relative and absolute path conversions here.

So if you wanted to find the relative path, you could write something like:

String absolutePath = (new File("Your/Relative/Path")).getCanonicalPath()

That being said, let it be known that Unix System absolute file paths are referenced from the /home directory. The file path you specified may already be absolute

Upvotes: 1

Ismail
Ismail

Reputation: 3032

You have a miss a confusion between absolute and relative paths, so I think you are asking about this:

./Music/part1/ints10000.dat

Upvotes: 0

lukashino
lukashino

Reputation: 63

I personally think you have a wrong understanding in what is relative/absolute path. Absolute path specifies path from the root / to the file while relative path specifies path from the current directory (position) to the specified file.

The path you have provided is an absolute path already.

Upvotes: 0

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