Question

  public class saveButtonListener implements ActionListener{
      public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent ev){
         JFileChooser chooser= new JFileChooser();

          String s=(String)searchedResultArea.getSelectedValue();// ??? 
    }
  }
  Object s=searchedResultArea.getSelectedValue();

I have developed a program that saves the filename of the some pictures that user specifies on a file and displays them in a JList. I have save them in this format

   E:\something\something\something.jpg

Now I need to open that picture using this value. My problem is that I am not able to convert this String into proper file naming that java uses like

    E:\\something\\something\\something.jpg

I hope you got the point. I need two backslashes. How do I do it?

Answer 1

“\” is used to escape “\” character in source code. Path separator on Windiows is still “\”. If you got path from user input, then nothing to do here.