How to Store Network Path in Properties File? Backslash Weirdness.

[Skinny Guy]

How can I store and correctly read back a network path in a Properties
file?

\\servername\\sharename\directory\

I tried different combinations of backslashes, then tried to escape
the last backslash (because its the Properties continuation char), but
none of my combinations worked after reading the property back into a
string.

I want to read it back into a String so that the String will contain
the exact characters above. How should the property look in the
Properties file?

 

[Carl]

How can I store and correctly read back a network path in a Properties
file?

\\servername\\sharename\directory\

I tried different combinations of backslashes, then tried to escape
the last backslash (because its the Properties continuation char), but
none of my combinations worked after reading the property back into a
string.

I want to read it back into a String so that the String will contain
the exact characters above. How should the property look in the
Properties file?

This works for me by escaping the backslash chars. "\" becomes "\\", and
"\\" becomes "\\\\".

In the props file, it should appear as:
netPath=\\\\server\\share\\directory\\

example:

Properties props = new Properties();
Properties propsIn = new Properties();

String pathString = new String("\\\\server\\share\\directory\\");

props.put("netPath", pathString);

try{
File file = new java.io.File(System.getProperty("user.home"),
"test.file");

if(!file.exists()){
file.createNewFile();
}

FileOutputStream fos = new FileOutputStream(file);
props.save(fos, "test");
propsIn.load(new FileInputStream(file));

} catch (FileNotFoundException e){
e.printStackTrace();
} catch (IOException e){
e.printStackTrace();
}

System.out.println("Read: " + propsIn.get("netPath"));