What type of parser are you using?
On Tue, May 20, 2008 at 10:51 PM, Roland Roberts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> James Carman wrote:
>>
>> Why the leading space inside the quote?
>>
>
> The first part of the answer was and is NO. Quoting does not help. Single
> quotes, double quotes, backslashes, nada, nothing, zip, zilch, no effect.
>
> The second part of the answer was IF I DO and put the quote at the
> beginning, then the parser does not consider it to be an option, but it
> fails to convert to an integer.
>
> Quoting doesn't help.
>
> roland
>>
>> On Tue, May 20, 2008 at 5:51 PM, Roland Roberts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> James Carman wrote:
>>>
>>>>
>>>> Can you quote it?
>>>>
>>>
>>> No. If I do
>>>
>>> foo --value " -2"
>>>
>>> it "works" but then 'new Integer(" -2") throws NumberException; it
>>> doesn't
>>> like leading spaces.
>
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