Why can't Java find a file inside of the main source folder?

I'm working on a game, and Java can't seem to find my file.

My play sound function is :

 void playSound(String soundLocation) {
	
	try
	{
		File soundPath = new File(soundLocation);
		
		if (soundPath.exists()) {
			AudioInputStream audioInput = AudioSystem.getAudioInputStream(soundPath);
			Clip clip = AudioSystem.getClip();
			clip.start();
			JOptionPane.showMessageDialog(null, "Press OK to stop playing");
		} else {
			System.out.println("Can't find file");
		}
	}
	
	catch(Exception ex) {
		ex.printStackTrace();
	}
	
  }

In my main class I have :

 package game;

 public class GUI_Handler {

 public static void main(String[] args) {
	String soundPath = "c://users/harry/java workspace/SlavaSourcecode/src/game/jump.wav";
	
	SOUND_Handler soundStuff = new SOUND_Handler();
	soundStuff.playSound(soundPath);
  }

}

It outputs " Can't find file");

Please help! Thanks,
Harry

You must replace all / with \ but in Java you must also escape the backslash with another backslash to prevent it being treated as a special character.

So, once you've replaced the /s with \ you then need to replace all \ with \\:

If you take what you already have you can amend soundPath to:

soundPath.replace("//","\").replace("\","\\");

And it should work.

Or you can manually edit the path to:

"c:\\users\\harry\\java workspace\\SlavaSourcecode\\src\\game\\jump.wav"

Note though that this is not at all portable to other machines. In reality what would be better is if you used a build tool (Gradle/Maven) which has a standard file structure (a "convention" used by most developers these days). The file structure has two directories: one for source code src/main/java, and another for resources src/main/resources. Typically you'd stick any such assets in the resources directory and load the jump.wav from the resources dir which is always accessible relatively on the classpath.