Property question

[lallous]

Hello,

I noticed that the Property class, when parsing values such as:
myKey=myvalue\myvalu1\myasdqd
myPath=c:\games\theGame\

Then all '\' are removed.

Any solution to keep the backslash w/o having the user manually replace all
backslash with forward slash?

 

[Christophe Vanfleteren]

Hello,

I noticed that the Property class, when parsing values such as:
myKey=myvalue\myvalu1\myasdqd
myPath=c:\games\theGame\

Then all '\' are removed.

Any solution to keep the backslash w/o having the user manually replace
all backslash with forward slash?

Yes, they'll need to double quote:

myKey=myvalue\\myvalu1\\myasdqd

but that's not much better than replacing the backslash with a forward
slash.

You have to do this because \ has a special meaning in a properties file.
Look at the api docs for the java.util.Properties.load() method for an
explanation on this.