Get name of parent directory in Java

Description

The following code shows how to get name of parent directory.

Example


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import java.io.File;

public class Main {
  public static void main(String[] args) {
    File file = new File("C:/demo.txt");
    System.out.println("Parent directory:" + file.getParent());
  }
}

The code above generates the following result.





















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