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Question

In PHP, to ensure that a path contains OS-appropriate directory separator characters, one would use the DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR constant (although it might not always be necessary to do so).

Is there an equivalent entity in Java?

Answer 1

There are two system-dependant constants provided by the java.io.File class:

• java.io.File.separator is a string containing the system-dependent name-separator character (ie "/" for Unix, "\" for Windows)
• java.io.File.pathSeparator is a string containing the system-dependent path-separator character (ie ":" for Unix, ";" for Windows)