Unexpected text returned from getPath()

[madroadbiker]

I'm simply trying to retrieve the path string from a File object like this:

JFileChooser fc = new JFileChooser();
fc.setCurrentDirectory(new File("."));
fc.setDialogTitle("File Chooser");
if (fc.showOpenDialog(mainPanel) == 0) {
    if ((inFile = fc.getSelectedFile()) != null)
    {
        String s = inFile.getPath();

At this point s = "(java.lang.String)/Applications/Utilities"
instead of just "/Applications/Utilities"
Why?

[Fubarable]

I don't seem to have your problem. You don't have another class of your own creation called String, do you?

[JosAH]

At this point s = "(java.lang.String)/Applications/Utilities"
instead of just "/Applications/Utilities"
Why?

It works for me (after adding a bit of code to make your example runnable). I have no idea where that "(java.lang.String)" prefix comes from ...

This is the code I ran:

import java.io.File;

import javax.swing.JFileChooser;

public class T {
	public static void main(String[] args) {
		File inFile;
		JFileChooser fc = new JFileChooser();
		fc.setCurrentDirectory(new File("."));
		fc.setDialogTitle("File Chooser");

		if (fc.showOpenDialog(null) == 0) {
		    if ((inFile = fc.getSelectedFile()) != null)
		    {
		        String s = inFile.getPath();	
		        System.out.println(s);
		    }
		}
	}
}

kind regards,

Jos

[madroadbiker]

When I ran your code in a new project, it worked fine. So I did a clean and build and the problem went away. I don't understand what happened. I must have done something somewhere in my code that got cleaned up after a clean and build. I guess I better do a clean build more often or at least whenever I encounter strange problems like this.
Thanks for your help.