Question

I am working with files (reading, writing and copying) in my Java application, java.io.File and commons-io were perfect for this kind of tasks.

Right now, I can link to HTML in this way:

Z:\an absolute\path\to\a\file.html

But, I need to provide support for anchors too:

Z:\an absolute\path\to\a\file.html#anchor

keeping the system-independence obtained by using java.io.File. So, I will need to extract the path and the anchor, I wonder whether it will be as easy as searching for a sharp occurrence.

Answer 1

java.io.File includes a constructor that accepts a URI, which can represent all kinds of resources, included URLs and local files (see the rfc). URI’s also meets your requirements of supporting anchors, and extracting path information (through instance.getPath()).