File.getParent
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public String getParent()
Description
Returns the parent part of the pathname of this File
object, or null if the name has no parent part. The parent
part is generally everything leading up to the last occurrence of the
separator character, although the precise definition is system
dependent. On UNIX, for example, the parent part of
"/usr/lib" is "/usr", whose parent part is
"/", which in turn has no parent. On Windows platforms,
the parent part of "c:\java" is "c:\", which
in turn has no parent.
See Also
getPath, getCanonicalPath, separator