I dont think that Ant changes some characters. I think the shell does. E.g. shells usually changte '*' to a list of files.
What you could do is writing these urls into a properties file and load that file. I dont know any possibility of masking the characters ... Jan -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- Von: news [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Im Auftrag von teknokrat Gesendet: Freitag, 17. August 2007 10:43 An: user@ant.apache.org Betreff: how do I pass properties containing & chars I am using ant 1.7. I need to pass urls as properties. Unfortunately these have parameters in them i.e. -Dtest.url=http://x.y.z?a=b&c=d ant barfs on these - is there any way this can be done --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]