Re: Escapign backslash in java.home

2004-11-18 Thread Peter Reilly
Users List Subject: RE: Escapign backslash in java.home why don't you use forward-slashes instead backslashes? It is the same for Java and it fits on Win & *nix systems; of course, it won't work the same on any OS, since in Win you have this horrible drives concept (C: D: etc)

RE: Escapign backslash in java.home

2004-11-16 Thread Thomas Saxtoft
Users List Subject: RE: Escapign backslash in java.home why don't you use forward-slashes instead backslashes? It is the same for Java and it fits on Win & *nix systems; of course, it won't work the same on any OS, since in Win you have this horrible drives concept (C: D: etc)

Re: Escapign backslash in java.home

2004-11-15 Thread Peter Reilly
What is wrong with the following? java.home is ${java.home} If you wanted to replace \ with \\, you could use a scriptfilter: self.setToken(self.getToken().replace("\\", "")); \a\b\c Peter Thomas Saxtoft wrote: On a Windows XP I

RE: Escapign backslash in java.home

2004-11-15 Thread Conelly, Luis (GE Energy, Non GE, GENE)
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Escapign backslash in java.home

2004-11-15 Thread Thomas Saxtoft
On a Windows XP I have to write the java.home property to a file, but doing that the '\' disappears. I suspect that it needs to be escaped like '\\', but the value of java.home is the one that contains the backslash. How do I write it to the file? The next thing is, how do I make it general so tha