Issue with reading file path

[snallami]

I am getting file path in eclipse plugin using org.eclipse.swt.widgets.FileDialog and saving the path in XML files.

In web.xml , path is stored as below (I can't change backsladh to forwardslash or escape backslash since the value is coming from SWT FileDialog)

<init-param>
<param-name>filePath</param-name>
<param-value>c:\new\demo\next\version.txt</param-value>
</init-param>

In my filter , i have below code in init() method but am not able to get File reference due to special characters

String filePath = filterConfig.getInitParameter("filePath");
// Tried filePath = filePath.replace('\\','/') --> Didnot work since \n is a single character
File f = new File(path)

[Norm]

If you know there should not be any valid lineend characters in the String, then replace \n with /