Question

Is it possible to let user enters a path with quotes in JFileChooser and get this path without quotes?

For example the user puts: "c:\path\to\File" in the File name text field. but when I got the selected file I got the current directory + "c:\path\to\File". Is their a way to solve this problem?

Thanks,

Answer 1

You could do something like so:

String str = "\"C:\\foor\\bar\"";
System.out.println(str);
String newStr = str.replaceAll("\"?(.+?)\"?", "$1");
System.out.println(newStr);

prints:

"C:\foo\bar"

C:\foo\bar

This will remove the quotes (") which are exactly at the beginning and end of the string. The ? in the regular expression denotes that the quotes might not be there, so for instance, the following should all yield the same result:

"C:\foo\bar"

"C:\foo\bar

C:\foo\bar"

C:\foo\bar

However, to my knowledge, the " character does not make part of a valid file path, so you might get around just by doing: str.replaceAll("\"","");.

EDIT: Seeing your comment and question edit, I made this short piece of code which seems to do what you are after. That said, I will not be removing my previous answer just in case someone else might find it useful.

JFileChooser chooser = new JFileChooser();
chooser.setCurrentDirectory(new java.io.File("."));
chooser.setDialogTitle("Hello");
chooser.setFileSelectionMode(JFileChooser.FILES_AND_DIRECTORIES);
chooser.setAcceptAllFileFilterUsed(false);
if (chooser.showOpenDialog(f) == JFileChooser.APPROVE_OPTION) 
{ 
    File file = chooser.getSelectedFile();
    if (file.getName().contains("\""))
    {
        Pattern pattern = Pattern.compile("\"?(.*?)\"?");
        Matcher m = pattern.matcher(file.getName());
        if (m.matches())
        {
            System.out.println("Group Found: " + m.group(1));
        }
    }
}

This seems to do what you are after, I have pasted the following in the File text box: "C:\foo\bar.txt" and the code printed C:\foo\bar.txt, excluding the initial segment.