Given I have two File
objects I can think of the following implementation:
public File convertToRelative(File home, File file) {
final String homePath = home.getAbsolutePath();
final String filePath = file.getAbsolutePath();
// Only interested in converting file path that is a
// direct descendants of home path
if (!filePath.beginsWith(homePath)) {
return file;
}
return new File(filePath.substring(homePath.length()+1));
}
Is there some smarter way of converting an absolute file path to a relative file path?
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How to construct a relative path in java from two absolute paths or urls