I think this is the default behaviour. If you want to display a string character ($), you have to escape it or place a string character before it ($$). d.
-----Original Message----- From: Nicklas McCalip [mailto:NEMcCalip@;bcbsms.com] Sent: Friday, November 15, 2002 3:05 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: $ problem in ANT task... I came across something the other day that I thought someone might want to take a look at. I was setting up a custom JDBCTask and was having problems getting a conncetion to the database. It wasn't until I echoed my userid and password that I realized what it was. You see the password we use for development purposes contains two "$" back to back; like "sa$$y". When the password was echoed it displayed only on "$"; like "sa$y", infact I had to put three back to back "$" before it would interpret the input as desired. Seems even when the "$" is in the middle of a quoted strring it still trying to parse out a value. The matter isn't urgent since you can work around it by "$" with a "$" but wanted to bring it to someones attention. Nick McCalip ------------------- TEXT.htm follows ------------------- <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"> <META content="MSHTML 6.00.2800.1106" name=GENERATOR></HEAD> <BODY style="MARGIN-TOP: 2px; FONT: 8pt Tahoma; MARGIN-LEFT: 2px"> <DIV><FONT size=1>I came across something the other day that I thought someone might want to take a look at. I was setting up a custom JDBCTask and was having problems getting a conncetion to the database. It wasn't until I echoed my userid and password that I realized what it was. You see the password we use for development purposes contains two "$" back to back; like "sa$$y". When the password was echoed it displayed only on "$"; like "sa$y", infact I had to put three back to back "$" before it would interpret the input as desired. </FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=1></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT size=1>Seems even when the "$" is in the middle of a quoted strring it still trying to parse out a value.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=1></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT size=1>The matter isn't urgent since you can work around it by "$" with a "$" but wanted to bring it to someones attention.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=1></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT size=1>Nick McCalip</FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML> -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:ant-user-unsubscribe@;jakarta.apache.org> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:ant-user-help@;jakarta.apache.org> -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:ant-user-unsubscribe@;jakarta.apache.org> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:ant-user-help@;jakarta.apache.org>
