" "(space character ) vs %20

[Amirtharaj Chinnaraj]

hi guys

i read a propety file from the following path

C:/Documents and Settings/chinnaraj/workspace/email/bin/classes/te.properties

i use the following code to read this property file

ClassLoader cl=Thread.currentThread().getContextClassLoader();
java.net.URL path= cl.getResource("te.properties");
System.out.println(" file "+path);
String s=path.getFile();

by printing s i found %20 in the path like below
file:/C:/Documents%20and%20Settings/chinnaraj/workspace/email/bin/classes/te.properties

what makes the " "(space characters ) changed to %20

when i faced this issue
i used this line s=s.replace("%20", " ");

to break through this
i want to know why the " "(space character) is changed to %20

[Ulf Dittmer]

That's because the path gets converted to an URL. Certain characters in URLs are escaped by the percent-sign/hex notation you saw. You can use the java.net.URLDecoder.decode method to reverse this encoding.

[Rob Spoor]

Alternatively, you can turn your URL into a File:

URI uri = path.toURI();
File file = new File(uri);

[Amirtharaj Chinnaraj]

thank you guys

cheers
amir