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How to check if a given path is possible child of another path?

Asked 2011-01-20T11:42:55.510
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I am trying to find if given path is possible child of another path using java. Both path may not exist.

Say c:\Program Files\My Company\test\My App is a possible child of c:\Program Files.

Currently I am doing this with 

boolean myCheck(File maybeChild, File possibleParent)
{
    return maybeChild.getAbsolutePath().startsWith( possibleParent.getAbsolutePath());
}
java file-io
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File parent = maybeChild.getParentFile();
while ( parent != null ) {
  if ( parent.equals( possibleParent ) )
    return true;
  parent = parent.getParentFile();
}
return false;
answered 2011-01-20T11:51:56.833

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