File paths manipulation in scala

Question

Is there some nice way to safely manipulate file paths in Scala, transcending naive string manipulation?

I mean smart concatenation that adds missing slashes between path parts, Unix v.s. Windows slashes, automatically escaping spaces in paths, etc?

What would be a nice Java fallback for that?

Answer 1

You can do it this way:

import java.io.File

val a = "abc/def"
val b = "ghi/jk"
new File(a,b).getPath
// res0: String = abc/def/ghi/jk