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 This is not a valid property format: see http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.5.0/docs/api/java/util/Properties.html#load(java.io.InputStream)
so how do you store it? Peter > > 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 > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]