How to handle ~ in file paths

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A simple path = path.replaceFirst("^~", System.getProperty("user.home")); when it is gotten from the user (before making a File out of it) should be enough to work in most cases – because the tilde is only expanded to a home directory if it is the first character in a directory section of a path.

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