teknokrat wrote:
Antoine Levy-Lambert wrote:
Hello teknokrat,

the fact that c:/ is written as c\:/ in a property file belongs to the spec of properties in Java. The : character is always escaped in property files.

Do you use the property file that you generate using <propertyfile/> also with a Java program, or is it consumed by something else, such as a shell script ?

Regards,

Antoine
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Datum: Mon, 12 Feb 2007 14:08:18 -0800
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CC: Betreff: RE: how do i use propertyfile on windows?

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Subject: how do i use propertyfile on windows?

When ever I use the propertyfile task to add a filepath on windows it escapes the colon in front of the drive e.g. c:/ turns to c\:/ which completely messes up the path. How do I make it stop escaping characters?


 It is consumed by another program

well, I'm afraid that you can't use propertyfile, which uses java.util.properties. The examples in the manual show how : chars get prefixed -this is by design in java classes.

why not just use <echo> to print something to a file?

-steve

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