> IMHO you are being "helped" by the windows command processor. I think it
> treats whitespace as meaningless.
>
Exactly. That's my current understanding of what is happenning. And
because this is an OS-dependent feature, I think (IMHO) that Ant when it
calls Runtime.exec to call an external process, it should use an
OS-specific launcher - and replace empty arguments with two double quotes
- which will be interpreted by windows command processor as an empty
argument, but will not be ignored.
> My suggestion would be to pass the ${my.property} argument as a keyword and
> value then base the programs behavior on the value of the keyword parameter.
>
What do you mean by "keyword and value"? Do you mean like a java
property -Dkey=value?
Cheers and thanks,
Martin
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