On 9/21/07, Jose de Castro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> 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.
Sounds great!
> 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:
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>
> 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( $D = '$' )${D}.
>
> On 9/19/07, Jose de Castro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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>
> I cannot get the Velocity engine to render '$.' (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
>
> .
> .
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