Converting Relative Paths to Absolute Paths

Question

I have an absolute path to file A.

I have a relative path to file B from file A\'s directory. This path may and will use \"..\" to go up the directory structure in

Answer 1

From your question, if i could get it right, you are looking to get abolute path from relative path, then you can do following.

File b = new File("../some/relative/path");
String absolute = b.getCanonicalPath(); // may throw IOException

or shorthand notation can be,

String absolute = new File("../some/relative/path").getCanonicalPath();