I believe you need to use the <pathconvert> task, see
http://ant.apache.org/manual/CoreTasks/pathconvert.html
Below is from an example:
<path id="wl.path">
<pathelement location="${wl.home}/lib/weblogicaux.jar"/>
<pathelement location="${wl.home}/classes"/>
<pathelement location="${wl.home}/mssqlserver4/classes"/>
<pathelement location="c:\winnt\System32"/>
</path>
<pathconvert targetos="unix" property="wl.path.unix" refid="wl.path">
<map from="${wl.home}" to="${wl.home.unix}"/>
<map from="c:" to=""/>
</pathconvert>
will generate the path shown below and store it in the property named
wl.path.unix.
/weblogic/lib/weblogicaux.jar:/weblogic/classes:/weblogic/mssqlserver4/classes:/WINNT/SYSTEM32
--glenn
On 8/9/07, broken connection <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Hi Friends,
> I take a directory path input from the end-user and store it in a
> property,for example if its windows,it stores it as:
>
> log4j.location=C:\tomcat\logs
>
> And that messes up everything.Because \t is interpreted as tab. So, how
> can
> i change the backward slashes(windows convention) to forward slashes(unix
> convention) in the property before my build file is executed????
>
> Or, how to escape them eg "\" to "\\"
>
> I would appreciate your help.
> Thanks
> Mick
>
