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Java: Get URI from FilePath

Asked 2011-11-30T09:35:51.507
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I've little knowledge of Java. I need to construct a string representation of an URI from FilePath(String) on windows. Sometimes the inputFilePath I get is: file:/C:/a.txt and sometimes it is: C:/a.txt. Right now, what I'm doing is:

new File(inputFilePath).toURI().toURL().toExternalForm()

The above works fine for paths, which are not prefixed with file:/, but for paths prefixed with file:/, the .toURI method is converting it to a invalid URI, by appending value of current dir, and hence the path becomes invalid.

Please help me out by suggesting a correct way to get the proper URI for both kind of paths.

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class TestPath {

    public static void main(String[] args) {
        String brokenPath = "file:/C:/a.txt";

        System.out.println(brokenPath);

        if (brokenPath.startsWith("file:/")) {
            brokenPath = brokenPath.substring(6,brokenPath.length());
        }
        System.out.println(brokenPath);
    }
}

Gives output:

file:/C:/a.txt
C:/a.txt
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answered 2011-11-30T09:42:49.423

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