URL of a local file

Hi java experts.
I have a function which takes URL as a parameter. But the file I want it to supply is on local hard drive. my file path is e:\administrator\source\defualt.htm. how to represent this file as a url string.
Thank you.

Try "file://e|/administrator/source/defualt.htm".
If you just want the URL object and don't care about the actual string you can use new File(path).toURL().

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