Path.subpath

Alan Bateman Alan.Bateman at oracle.com
Thu Jun 7 14:22:03 PDT 2012


On 07/06/2012 20:17, Paulo Levi wrote:
> Hi. May i ask why does the Path.subpath method not return the Root, 
> even if started with 0? It's intentional from the javadoc, and easy to 
> avoid by resolving against the getRoot from the original path, but i 
> am curious about the reasons.
You may or may not want the root component so this would would require 
an additional parameter to indicate this. So yes, subpath is 
intentionally specified to return a relative path and that keeps it simple.

-Alan


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