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Re: get path of a Jar file

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On 22/10/11 10:54, Philipp Kraus wrote:
> String l_jarfile = 
> Class.forName("class_within_the_jar").getResource("").toString();
> l_jarfile        = l_jarfile.substring(9, 
> l_jarfile.lastIndexOf(".jar!")) + ".jar";
>
> This does not work on MS Windows systems (unix and OSX work correct 
> with this code).
> If the Jar files is stored under a path like "C:\Users\myuser\Java 
> Files\myjar.jar" (with a space)
> the JarFile-Object can't locate the file, because the space within the 
> directory is changed to %20

Leaving aside the good questions of why, and whether these magic 
constants are a good thing, I will address the decoding of % sequences: 
Create a java.net.URI from the string, then create a java.io.File from 
the URI.

import java.net.*;
import java.io.*;

public class GetPath {
     public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception {
         Class<?>  clazz = Class.forName(args[0]);
         URL clazzRes = clazz.getResource("");
         String loc = clazzRes.toString();
         System.out.println("Resource: " + loc);
         URI stripped =
             URI.create(loc.substring(4, loc.lastIndexOf(".jar!") + 4));
         System.out.println("Stripped: " + stripped);
         File result = new File(stripped);
         System.out.println("Result: " + result);
     }
}

Lots of result checking omitted.

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ss at comp dot lancs dot ac dot uk

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get path of a Jar file Philipp Kraus <philipp.kraus@flashpixx.de> - 2011-10-22 11:54 +0200
  Re: get path of a Jar file Lew <lewbloch@gmail.com> - 2011-10-22 08:52 -0700
  Re: get path of a Jar file Martin Gregorie <martin@address-in-sig.invalid> - 2011-10-22 21:19 +0000
  Re: get path of a Jar file Steven Simpson <ss@domain.invalid> - 2011-10-24 21:07 +0100
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