Question

I have this problem: I am choosing a file from JFileChooser and if i take a system print i get this path: C:\Users\Joakim\Desktop\dude.txt and when i want to use this link to copy this file to another location i need to have the path like this: C://Users/Joakim/Desktop/dude.txt
How can i do this?

public void upload(String username) throws RemoteException, NullPointerException{
    JFileChooser chooser = new JFileChooser(getProperty + "/desktop/");
    int returnVal = chooser.showOpenDialog(parent);
    if (returnVal == JFileChooser.APPROVE_OPTION) {
        System.out.println("You chose to open this file: " + chooser.getSelectedFile().getName());
    } try {
        String fileName = chooser.getSelectedFile().getName();
        System.out.println(fileName); //name of the file
        File selectedFile = chooser.getSelectedFile();
        System.out.println(selectedFile); //path of the file
        //File path= selectedFile.replaceAll('/','/');
        String serverDirectory = ("C://Users/Joakim/Dropbox/Project RMI/SERVER/");
        byte[] filedata = cf.downloadFile(selectedFile);
        BufferedOutputStream output = new BufferedOutputStream(new FileOutputStream(serverDirectory + fileName)); 
        output.write(filedata, 0, filedata.length);
        output.flush();
        output.close();
    } catch (Exception e) {
        System.err.println("FileServer exception: " + e.getMessage());
        e.printStackTrace();
    }
}

Thanks in Advance 🙂

Edit: So this did not work out as i planed. I wanted to change the path to C://Users/Joakim/Desktop/dude.txt but thats not enough. I need to have //C://Users/Joakim/Desktop/dude.txt. The problem i have now is to get that and still use it as a File. I did test out

File newFil = new File("//" + selectedFile);
byte[] filedata = cf.downloadFile(nyFil);

This do not work for me. I still get out C://Users/Joakim/Desktop/dude.txt
Do someone have a tip or two? 🙂

Answer 1

It’s simple, try this :

String first = "C:\\Mine\\Java";
String second = first.replace("\\", "/");
second = second.replaceFirst("/", "//");
System.out.println(second);

OUTPUT :

Hope this might help in some way.

Regards