Question

I have File object in Java which is a directory path:

C:\foo\foo\bar

…and I would like to change this to:

C:\foo\foo\newname

I’m don’t mean renaming the actual directory, but, simply modifying the path in the File object. Could someone show me how I can do this? Do I have to use string functions for this or is there some inbuilt Java function that I can use?

Thanks.

Answer 1

You can construct one File from another and get the parent directory of a file, combining these:

File orig = new File("C:\\foo\\foo\\bar");
File other = new File(orig.getParentFile(), "newname");