How to check whether the path is relative or absolute in java?

Question

I am developing a tool, which takes a path of an xml file. Now that path can be either relative or absolute. Inside the code, when I have only a string, is there a way to identify that the path is absolute or relative?

Answer 1

How about File.isAbsolute():

File file = new File(path); if (file.isAbsolute()) {     ... }