How to Convert a String to Path in Java

Being a server-side language, Java is used heavily when it comes to file system operations.

To access the file system, you usually need to use a path to a directory or a file. A path is a string that represents the location of a file or directory.

In this article, we will see how to convert a string to a path in Java.

How to convert a string to a path in Java

To learn how to convert a string to a path, let's first define a string that represents a path:

JAVA
public class Main
{
    public static void main(String[] args) {
        String location = "C:/Users/sabe/Desktop";

        System.out.println(location);
    }
}

The output of the above code is:

BASH
C:/Users/sabe/Desktop

Now, if we want to convert this string to a path, we can use the Paths.get() method.

For this, we'll need to import both java.nio.file.Paths and java.nio.file.Path:

JAVA
import java.nio.file.Paths;
import java.nio.file.Path;

Then, we can use the Paths.get() method to convert the string to a path:

JAVA
import java.nio.file.Path;
import java.nio.file.Paths;

public class Main
{
    public static void main(String[] args) {
        String location = "C:/Users/sabe/Desktop";

        Path path = Paths.get(location);

        System.out.println(path);
    }
}

The output is:

BASH
C:/Users/sabe/Desktop

If you don't have the entire path in string, you can provide it piece by piece, or folder by folder, by using the Paths.get() method and pass each folder as a separate parameter:

JAVA
import java.nio.file.Path;
import java.nio.file.Paths;

public class Main
{
    public static void main(String[] args) {
        Path path = Paths.get("C:", "Users", "sabe", "Desktop");
    }
}

Then when you want it in a String, you can use the Path.toString() method:

JAVA
import java.nio.file.Path;
import java.nio.file.Paths;

public class Main
{
    public static void main(String[] args) {
        Path path = Paths.get("C:", "Users", "sabe", "Desktop");

        String location = path.toString();

        System.out.println(location);
    }
}

BASH
C:/Users/sabe/Desktop

Conclusion

In this post, we learned how to convert a string to a path in Java.

Simply use the Paths.get() method to convert a string to a path.

Thanks for reading!

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