Question

I can have the following filename with path:

/somepath/file

The file has no extension, so in Java getPath ends up returning the entire path and filename. Assuming that the last thing in the path/filename is always a filename, how can I extract the path? The simplest solution is just to look for the last forward slash. But is there a built-in API that gets it?

Edit: Mistake. I meant how do I extract the path (and not the filename). Sorry.

Answer 1

Use lastIndexOf() and substring()

System.out.println(fileObj.getPath().substring(0, f.getPath().lastIndexOf("/"));

Edit : Just found out the existence of getParent() and it will give you that directory of the file directly.

System.out.println(fileObj.getParent());