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package de.charite.compbio.jannovar.impl.util;

import java.io.File;

/**
 * Utility class with static methods for path manipulation.
 *
 * @author Manuel Holtgrewe
 */
public final class PathUtil {

	/**
	 * Join file name components.
	 *
	 * 	 * String path = Path.join("path", "to", "file");
	 * // => path == "path/to/file";
	 * 
	 * 
	 * Note that this also works fine for joining paths in URLs.
	 *
	 * @param components file name components to join
	 * @return joint file name components of components
	 */
	public static String join(String... components) {
		File file = new File(components[0]);
		for (int i = 1; i < components.length; ++i)
			file = new File(file, components[i]);
		return file.getPath();
	}

}