Read file with whitespace in its path using Java

Question

I am trying to open files with FileInputStream that have whitespaces in their names.

For example:

String fileName = \"This is my file.txt\";
String          


        

Answer 1

Normally whitespace in path should't matter. Just make sure when you're passing path from external source (like command line), that it doesn't contain whitespace at the end:

File file = new File(path.trim());

In case you want to have path without spaces, you can convert it to URI and then back to path

try {
    URI u = new URI(path.trim().replaceAll("\\u0020", "%20"));
    File file = new File(u.getPath());
} catch (URISyntaxException ex) {
    Exceptions.printStackTrace(ex);
}