new File (Relative Path to a package): How?

[H Paul]

1. I used Apache common io.
2.
List<String> lines = FileUtils.readLines("c://etc...//mypackage//io//textfile.txt"); // absolute path
This is absolute path. It works.

3.
List<String> lines = FileUtils.readLines("mypackage/io/textfile.txt"); // relative to a package
Exception in thread "main" java.io.FileNotFoundException:

Syntax-wise or class-wise or xyz: How can I make it by using relative path to a package?

1M Thanks.

[Paul Clapham]

First you get a File object which represents the "package" -- whatever you mean by that.

File packageFile = ...

Then you use the File constructor which allows you to create a File relative to another File:

File dataFile = new File(packageFile, "mypackage/io/textfile.txt");