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Hi all,

I was wondering if any Java API gurus out there know of any methods
that Java provides that parses a relative path in a URL - that is, it
removes all of the escape characters and replaces it with the proper
characters. I've looked at java.net.URI, but it seems to me that you
need to construct a URI in order to use the getPath() method - I
already have a get path method: I just need to parse the relative path.

Thanks in advance

Taras

On 17 Aug 2005 22:28:16 -0700, wrote or quoted :

>I was wondering if any Java API gurus out there know of any methods
>that Java provides that parses a relative path in a URL - that is, it
>removes all of the escape characters and replaces it with the proper
>characters.

You want to URLDecode first then check out URI URN URL

see http://mindprod.com/jgloss/urlencoded.html

On Wed, 17 Aug 2005 22:28:16 -0700, taras.di wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I was wondering if any Java API gurus out there know of any methods
> that Java provides that parses a relative path in a URL - that is, it
> removes all of the escape characters and replaces it with the proper
> characters. I've looked at java.net.URI, but it seems to me that you
> need to construct a URI in order to use the getPath() method - I
> already have a get path method: I just need to parse the relative path.

Assuming you mean you have a relative path to a file, look into file://
type URLs, they should, together with absolute paths, solve your problem.

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