Re: backslash escaping in a regex

2010-05-11 Thread Jakob Fix
Hi Stefan, eight backslashes, wow! That means four intermediate steps to get from to \ I'll probably just go with the forward slashes in the property file and pathconvert them to backslashes. thanks a lot, Jakob. On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 17:29, Stefan Bodewig wrote: > On 2010-05-11,

Re: backslash escaping in a regex

2010-05-11 Thread Stefan Bodewig
On 2010-05-11, Jakob Fix wrote: > Hi, looked through the archive, but I don't think pathconvert can be > used in this case. > property file: > prop=E:\\foo\\bar property files and backslahes are a pain. > build file: > > > > > I also tried double escaping i.e. > prop=E:foobar

RE: backslash escaping in a regex

2010-05-11 Thread Martin Gainty
e contenu fourni. > From: jakob@gmail.com > Date: Tue, 11 May 2010 11:19:33 +0200 > Subject: backslash escaping in a regex > To: user@ant.apache.org > > Hi, looked through the archive, but I don't think pathconvert can be > used in this case. > > property file

backslash escaping in a regex

2010-05-11 Thread Jakob Fix
Hi, looked through the archive, but I don't think pathconvert can be used in this case. property file: prop=E:\\foo\\bar build file: actual result: value="E:foobar" desired result: value="E:\foo\bar" I also tried double escaping i.e. prop=E:foobar but there all backslashes dis