At 08:24 PM 11/22/00 -0100, Paul Kinnucan wrote:
Please ignore the previous message. I am wroing. I see that Guillaume has,
indeed, escaped the backslashes in his global classpath. The problem comes
when the path is evaluated so a fix is needed.
- Paul
>At 07:26 PM 11/21/00 +0100, Berche, Guillaume wrote:
>>Hello,
>>
>>After moving to JDE 2.2.6beta5, I am having a weird bean shell error when
>trying to use the jde-show-class-source function:
>>
>>Beanshell expression evaluation error.
>> Expression: jde.util.JdeUtilities.buildClassList(
>"C:\jdk1.2.2\jre\lib\rt.jar;\users\gberche\latestBuild\Xtrim\src;\users\gber
>che\latestBuild\Xtrim\lib\HTTPClient.zip;\users\gberche\latestBuild\Xtrim\li
>b\Stingray\Stingray.zip;\users\gberche\latestBuild\Xtrim\lib\kevin.jar;\user
>s\gberche\latestBuild\Xtrim\lib\Cryptix;\users\gberche\latestBuild\Xtrim\lib
>\xml\xml.jar;\users\gberche\latestBuild\Xtrim\lib\jWrap\jWrapRuntime.jar;\us
>ers\gberche\latestBuild\Xtrim\lib\jWrap\FlexibleLayout.jar;\users\gberche\la
>testBuild\Xtrim\lib\JNL\Classes;c:/Tools/jakarta-tomcat/lib/servlet.jar;c:/T
>ools/jakarta-tomcat/lib/jasper.jar");
>> Error: // Error: Error parsing input: bsh.TokenMgrError: Lexical error
>at line 2, column 43. Encountered: "j" (106), after : "\"C:\\"
>>
>>Would this come from my path including some backslashes? Should I update
>to Unix-style slashes? I was trying to keep native path separators '\' so
>that the buggy's Sun compiler ( version <1.2) would get native ones and be
>happy. I could not figure out if this was wrong to set such path in JDE.
>
>No. The problem comes from the fact that backslash is an "escape" character
>in both Lisp and Java strings. This means that it has a special meaning
>when it comes before certain characters in a string such as j, r, n, and \
>itself. For example, when it comes before a j, it means that the j is to be
>treated not as j but as a linefeed character. Thus, the string "C:\j" means
>capital C followed by a colon followed by a line feed character. To express
>what you want to express, you must escape the escape character, that is,
>double the backslash, thus "C:\\j".
>
>- Paul
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