Path toString() method in Java

The Path class includes various methods that can be used to obtain information about the path, access elements of the path, convert the path to other forms, or extract portions of a path.

Path interface is introduced in java7.

toString() method of java.nio.file.Path used to return the string representation of this path.



 path.toString()




import java.io.IOException;
import java.nio.file.Path;
import java.nio.file.Paths;

public class PathToStringExample {
	public static void main(String[] args)
	throws IOException {
		// create a Path Object
		Path path = Paths.get("C:\\Users\\balauser");

		// print path 
		System.out.println("Path is : " + path.toString());
	}
}
output:
Path is : C:\Users\balauser

Get the current directory path as a string

In the files system, we have.   and .. 

 . means the current directory.

.. means outer directory.

so we have 


Path currentDir = Paths.get(".");
 



import java.io.IOException;
import java.nio.file.Path;
import java.nio.file.Paths;

public class PathToStringExample {
	public static void main(String[] args)
	throws IOException {
		Path currentDir = Paths.get(".");

		System.out.println("Path is : " + currentDir.toAbsolutePath().toString());
	}
}

output:
Path is : /home/cg/root/8639990/.

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