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

Question

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

Answer 1

That will probably work fine as it is, although I would use getCanonicalPath() rather than getAbsolutePath(). This should normalize any weird paths like x/../y/z which would otherwise screw up the matching.