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

Windows path to full Java path.

String winPath = downloadPath+"\\"+dir_contents[i].getName();
String absPath = winPath.replace("\\","\\\\");