Does Java have a path joining method?

Question

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combine paths in java

I would like to know if there is such a method in Java. Take this snippet as example :

// this will output a/b
System.out.println(path_join("a","b"));
// a/b 
System.out.println(path_join("a","/b");

Answer 1

This concerns Java versions 7 and earlier.

To quote a good answer to the same question:

If you want it back as a string later, you can call getPath(). Indeed, if you really wanted to mimic Path.Combine, you could just write something like:

public static String combine (String path1, String path2) {
    File file1 = new File(path1);
    File file2 = new File(file1, path2);
    return file2.getPath();
}