How do you find a filechooser file's absolute path ?

Hi everyone,
I'm a little confused. I'm using a filechooser in my GUI to get two files. I then pass their names to another class where I am attempting to read them. When I choose testfile1 from C:\My Documents And Settings\ Danielle \ My Documents \ testfile1.txt, and pass it's name to the other class, the call: file1.getAbsolutePath() returns the path C:\projects\testfile1.txt. (Obviously I've assigned the String file1 to testfile1.txt).
I'm running into problems because of this-- according to FileReader, my testfile1.txt doesn't exist (unsurprising- Java isn't looking in the right place).
So, how do I get the filechooser to pass the correct absolute path so that FileReader has something to work with?
Thanks,
Danielle
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cdelmio

getSelectedFile returns a File object. The File object contains methods to get the fully-qualified path (getAbsolutePath() I believe). Presumably you are invoking some other method (getName() I assume) which returns the file name only, and so you have thrown away that valuable piece of information.

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