On 2011-11-30, Stefan Bodewig wrote: > It is quite possible you'd get the same sort of escaping if you load the > file with Properties#load and write it back with Properties#store > outside of Ant as well.
<http://docs.oracle.com/javase/6/docs/api/java/util/Properties.html#store%28java.io.Writer,%20java.lang.String%29> even explicitly says so: ,---- | The key and element characters #, !, =, and : are written with a | preceding backslash to ensure that they are properly loaded. `---- > i.e. it isn't even Ant that is escaping the colons in your files. Stefan --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: user-unsubscr...@ant.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: user-h...@ant.apache.org