Yes, that’s the string representation of Path objects. Or so I think, I’m not an actual Java programmer 
. Building a string like that is easy, but unfortunately of no use, since it’s the wrong data type. I’m looking for the method that accepts a string and returns the path object.
The KNIME documentation doesn’t cover such a niche application (which is how it should be).
I just had the idea of looking into the source code of the StringToPath Node (it does what I want, so the answer gotta be in there). NodePit links to the source. This is unfamiliar territory though, not sure if I’ll have any success with that. StringToPath source