I'm working on a project for school that needs to read from text files inside the project directory. I have it working but only because I have the filepath hardcoded to my computer.
i.e.
String path = "C:\\Users\\MyName\\workspace\\ProjectName\\" If I sent it to my teacher, the filepath would result in an error.
Is there a way I can set the filepath to wherever the project is stored, from inside the project?
Just put the file name.
String path = "XPTO.txt"
This means your file is in the project root.
Resource files can be place relative to the class files in your project (in this manner, they can be packaged together with class files as a jar file). To access these from within your project, you can use Class.getResource() or Class.getResourceAsStream. For instance...
InputStream is = MyClass.class.getResourceAsStream('path/to/file'); Where 'path/to/file' is the path relative to where MyClass resides. Note the lack of a '/' at the beginning of this path - if it began with '/' it would be an absolute path relative to the highest package level of the project. Also note that one can use a relative file path to read a file external to the class package directory structure.
Just do WhateverNeedsAPath("Something") //path will be whereever/ProjectName/Something
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