Question

I have been looking on Google for a while now, and I just cant seem to find or remember how to access a file on the desktop with a URL. It’s really frustrating me. Here is what I feel like it should be:

URL url = new URL("C:\\Users\\Austin\\Desktop\\hi.gif");

But it is just not working. I believe there is something that I should put instead of new URL but I cant find it. I’ve tried every search term I can think of.

How to turn file path as String into URL?

Answer 1

// There are better ways to specify file paths, BNI.
File f = new File("C:\\Users\\Austin\\Desktop\\hi.gif");
URL url = f.toURI().toURL();