Sadly it did not. I've worked around it using the environment variables, which do permit the escaping.
-----Original Message----- From: Gary Gregory <garydgreg...@gmail.com> Sent: Saturday, August 21, 2021 16:22 To: Commons Users List <user@commons.apache.org> Subject: Re: [daemon] Escaping the colon Did that fix it? Gary On Tue, Aug 17, 2021, 03:28 Mark Thomas <ma...@apache.org> wrote: > Please try again with single quotes rather than double quotes. i.e. > > -Dfoo='bar;zar' > > Mark > > > On 17/08/2021 07:43, Gridinas, Mantas wrote: > > I did test that prior writing the message. Result was the following: > > > > -Dfoo=bar > > zar > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Gary Gregory <garydgreg...@gmail.com> > > Sent: Monday, August 16, 2021 19:17 > > To: Commons Users List <user@commons.apache.org> > > Subject: Re: [daemon] Escaping the colon > > > > What happens if you say: > > > > -Dfoo="bar;zar" > > > > Gary > > > > On Mon, Aug 16, 2021, 11:54 Gridinas, Mantas < > mantas.gridi...@storebrand.no> > > wrote: > > > >> Hi! > >> > >> I've come into a bit of a pickle. I'm trying to pass the following > >> value as my argument for a system property -Dfoo=bar;zar Which > >> results in the following usage of ++StartParams > >> ++StartParams=-Dfoo=bar;zar > >> > >> In my JVM I am using `System.getProperty("foo")` to read the the > >> expected value of "bar;zar", but instead procsrv.exe considers that > >> zar should be a different argument which in turn causes the > >> java.exe think that zar is the main class name for application > >> instead. How do I go about escaping the colon in startparams? > >> > >> Cheers! > >> // Mantas > >> > > > > -------------------------------------------------------------------- > > - To unsubscribe, e-mail: user-unsubscr...@commons.apache.org > > For additional commands, e-mail: user-h...@commons.apache.org > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: user-unsubscr...@commons.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: user-h...@commons.apache.org > >