How to retrieve the name of database from a path in android

Question

I had a db named test.db located in application directory . I retrieved the path using the method "getPath()" which gives entire path of db . How can I get the name of the db from that path. I ma receiving path a data\test.db . I need to get only test.db . How can I retrieve the name of the databae only from the path in android.

Thanks in Advance

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered May 21 '14 at 12:46

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used split() for string splitting like

String str=yourpathstring;
String[] str1=str.split("/");
String dbname=str1[1];

answered May 21 '14 at 12:46

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gives error as insert missing quote at line str.split("\") – Android_programmer_office May 21 '14 at 12:49
@Android_programmer_office try back slash str.split("/") – M D May 21 '14 at 12:50

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered May 21 '14 at 13:22

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Try this

    String dbpath="yourdbpath";
    File f = new File(dbpath);
    String dbName = f.getName();

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score 0 · Answer 3 · edited May 23 '17 at 12:05

as explained in another threads you can do so with:

 context.getDatabasePath(DataBaseHelper.dbName)

in your case the name is test.db if I understood well; this is the proper way to do it and I think you'll get the path you expect.

source: Get database path

Either way; if you just want to extract the name from the String data\test.db then you can:

String path = yourpath;
String dbName = path.substring(path.length - 8, 7)

Using Substring this way will always extract the last 7 characters.

source: Extract substring from a string

How to retrieve the name of database from a path in android

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