Re: Cannot get engine to render $.

[Jose de Castro]

It sure did. Clever hack. I'd still like to see some resolution to the root cause though. I'll open that ticket and possibly even take a crack at fixing it this weekend. Thanks again, Jose de Castro Nathan Bubna wrote: Yeah, that'd be great. thanks! Did the $#**#. trick work? On 9/21/07, Jose de Castro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: So should I file a bug report for this? Thanks, Jose Nathan Bubna wrote: This seems to be some sort of strange parser bug you've run into. The escaping your trying doesn't work because it is reference escaping and reference escaping is for escaping references, which $. is not. You might also try $#**# to avoid a context lookup. Though, i haven't tried it, and who knows what the parser will think of it. On 9/19/07, Jose de Castro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Thanks Nathan. That's what I'm doing now but there has to be a better way. I'd like to avoid a VelocityContext lookup if possible. Does anyone know why I'm experiencing this behavior? Why s the escape character not working in this particular use case? Nathan Bubna wrote: #set( $D = '$' )${D}. On 9/19/07, Jose de Castro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I cannot get the Velocity engine to render '$.' (a dollar sign followed by a dot). The dollar sign is being omitted from the output. I have tried escaping the dollar sign by writing it as '\$.' with no luck. Any help will be greatly appreciated. Here is some test output: $. \$. renders . . --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]