Getting canonical path for file spec relative to another

Assuming you have File object representing the original text file and a file name relative to itself (assuming relative to the directory the original text file is in), you can get a canonical filename like this:File textFile = new File("C:\\Documents and Settings\\JeffG1\\My Documents\\references.txt");

File directory = textFile.getParentFile();

String relativeFileName = getRelativeFileName(); // get it somehow

File fileForFileName = new File(directory, relativeFileName);

System.out.println(fileForFileName.getCanonicalPath());

Note that this code does NOT check for the existence of the file.

Herko_ter_Horsta at 2007-7-12 3:49:08 >