File.separator vs File.pathSeparator

• File.separator == > separator: Platform dependent default name-separator character as String. For           windows, it’s ‘\’ and for unix it’s ‘/’.
• File.separatorChar ==>separatorChar: Same as separator but it’s char.
• File.pathSeparator ==> pathSeparator: Platform dependent variable for path-separator. For example PATH or CLASSPATH variable list of paths separated by ‘:’ in Unix systems and ‘;’ in Windows system.
• File.pathSeparatorChar ==> pathSeparatorChar: Same as pathSeparator but it’s char.
• This is the environment independent property.This will be usefull for file upload and downloading etc.

1. package commonsUtils;
2. import java.io.File;
3. 
   
4. public class FileSep{
5. public static void main(String[] args){
6.                   String filepath = File.separator + "sample" + File.separatorChar + "seperator";
7.                   String pathSep = File.pathSeparator + "sample" + File.pathSeparatorChar + "seperator";                                              
8. 
   
9.                   System.out.println("The path of the file is : " + filepath);
10.                   System.out.println("The path of the file is  :  " + pathSep);
11. 
    
12.  System.out.println("File.separator = "+File.separator)
13.  System.out.println("File.separatorChar = "+File.separatorChar);
14.  System.out.println("File.pathSeparator = "+File.pathSeparator);
15.  System.out.println("File.pathSeparatorChar = "+File.pathSeparatorChar);
16. }
17. }

 Output :

 For Windows

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 The path of the file is  :  \sample\seperator

 The path of the file is  :  ;sample;seperator

 File.separator = \

 File.separatorChar = \

 File.pathSeparator = ;

 File.pathSeparatorChar = ;

 For Unix

 ----------

 The path of the file is  :  /sample/seperator

 The path of the file is  :  :sample:seperator

 File.separator = /

 File.separatorChar = /

 File.pathSeparator = :

 File.pathSeparatorChar = :