Re: back slash and property files

2002-07-08 Thread Mike Cavedon
Detlef, Thanks for the info. I'll probably go the Java like property route. Mike Detlef Brendle wrote: >From what I can see here I would say theres no way doing this with simple >ant feature - neither in 1.4 nor in 1.5. >The problem is that Ant uses Java property files as input and in Java y

RE: back slash and property files

2002-07-07 Thread Detlef Brendle
>From what I can see here I would say theres no way doing this with simple ant feature - neither in 1.4 nor in 1.5. The problem is that Ant uses Java property files as input and in Java you always have to escape '\' and ':' plus other special chars. Suggestions for this are: - make the property f

Re: back slash and property files

2002-07-03 Thread Lou Fox
Have you tried using two backslashes? as in c:\\program files\\install directory - Original Message - From: "Mike Cavedon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, July 03, 2002 3:58 PM Subject: back slash and property files > > I have an existing property file that