Java Path Relative getRelativeFilename(File base, File target)

Description

Simplistic version: return the substring after the base

License

LGPL

Declaration

public static String getRelativeFilename(File base, File target) 

Method Source Code

//package com.java2s;
//License from project: LGPL 

import java.io.File;

public class Main {
    /**/*from  ww w  .  ja  va 2  s.  c o m*/
     * Simplistic version: return the substring after the base
     */
    public static String getRelativeFilename(File base, File target) {
        return getRelativeFilename(base.getAbsolutePath(), target.getAbsolutePath());
    }

    public static String getRelativeFilename(String sBase, String sTarget) {
        if (sTarget.startsWith(sBase)) {
            if (sBase.endsWith("/") || sBase.endsWith("\\") || sTarget.length() == sBase.length())
                return sTarget.substring(sBase.length());
            else
                return sTarget.substring(sBase.length() + 1);
        } else
            return sTarget; // Leave absolute
    }
}

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