Useful for handling user supplied paths to resources, which can be both relative and absolute. - Java File Path IO

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Useful for handling user supplied paths to resources, which can be both relative and absolute.

Demo Code

/*/*  w w  w  . j  a  v  a  2s  .co  m*/
 * Copyright 2012 Joseph Spencer
 *
 * Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
 * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
 * You may obtain a copy of the License at
 *
 *      http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
 *
 * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
 * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
 * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
 * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
 * limitations under the License.
 */
//package com.java2s;

public class Main {
    public static void main(String[] argv) throws Exception {
        String path = "java2s.com";
        System.out.println(getPathToUse(path));
    }

    /**
     * Useful for handling user supplied paths to resources, which can be both
     * relative and absolute.
     * 
     * @param path
     * @return An absolute path.  The resulting path is not normalized, so ../ 
     * ./ is maintained.
     */
    public static String getPathToUse(String path) {
        String pathToUse;
        if (path.startsWith("/")) {
            pathToUse = path;
        } else {
            pathToUse = System.getProperty("user.dir") + "/" + path;
        }
        return pathToUse;
    }
}

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