question: public static URL [ ] pathToURLs ( String path ) { StringTokenizer st = new StringTokenizer ( path , File . pathSeparator ) ; URL [ ] urls = new URL [ st . countTokens ( ) ] ; int count = 0 ; while ( st . hasMoreTokens ( ) ) { URL url = fileToURL ( new File ( st . nextToken ( ) ) ) ; if ( url != null ) { urls [ count ++ ] = url ; } } if ( urls . length != count ) { URL [ ] tmp = new URL [ count ] ; System . arraycopy ( urls , 0 , tmp , 0 , count ) ; urls = tmp ; } return urls ; }
target:  Utility method for converting a search path string to an array of directory and JAR file URLs.