How to check whether the path is relative or absolute in java?

Question

I am developing a tool, which takes a path of an xml file. Now that path can be either relative or absolute. Inside the code, when I have only a string, is there a way to identify that the path is absolute or relative?

question from:https://stackoverflow.com/questions/7627049/how-to-check-whether-the-path-is-relative-or-absolute-in-java

Answer 1

How about File.isAbsolute():

File file = new File(path);
if (file.isAbsolute()) {
    ...
}