Relative path for files

hi all,
I am making a small program that needs to store some of the users preferences in a text file. I want the text file to be in the jar when i am finished and in the same folder as the main class. I am having a problem though with writing to a reading the file in a relative path. when i use "args.txt" it reads to the c:\args.txt and not the folder in which the program runs. Same thing with "\\args.txt" and "/args.txt". Any help? Thanks! :)

If your file is in the same directory as the program the relative path is simply the file name : "args.txt". Also possible is "./args.txt".
Keep in mind though that you can't write to a file in a jar, and even reading it is more complicated than with the ordinary I/O classes.
Look up the getResourceAsStream method in the API (I think it's a method of the ClassLoader class).

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