Java property files

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KenStahl - 08 Oct 2006 03:40 GMT

I have a java application that reads a properties file. All
is well until I include a property like:

AppPath = C:\Program files\myprog\dat

When I use getProperty() to read the property the \
characters are stripped out.

How can I prevent this from happening to that the string
reads in correctly?

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Lew - 08 Oct 2006 20:18 GMT

> I have a java application that reads a properties file. All is well
> until I include a property like:
[quoted text clipped - 6 lines]
> How can I prevent this from happening to that the string reads in
> correctly?

Read
http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.5.0/docs/api/java/util/Properties.html#load(java.io.I
nputStream)

It explains how the backslash character '\' is interpreted.

- Lew

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KenStahl - 08 Oct 2006 22:15 GMT

>> I have a java application that reads a properties file. All is well
>> until I include a property like:
[quoted text clipped - 13 lines]
>
> - Lew

That is all well and fine. I knew WHAT was happening. I just
need to know how to prevent it from happening?

Is my only resort to use StringTokerizer?

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Lew - 08 Oct 2006 22:46 GMT

>>> I have a java application that reads a properties file. All is well
>>> until I include a property like:
[quoted text clipped - 6 lines]
>>> How can I prevent this from happening to that the string reads in
>>> correctly?

>> Read
>> http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.5.0/docs/api/java/util/Properties.html#load(java.io.I
nputStream)
[quoted text clipped - 7 lines]
>
> Is my only resort to use StringTokerizer?

As explained in the link, you can double the backslashes.

Or use forward slashes.

Read the link.

- Lew

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KenStahl - 08 Oct 2006 23:10 GMT

>>>> I have a java application that reads a properties file. All is well
>>>> until I include a property like:
[quoted text clipped - 26 lines]
>
> - Lew

Ok, I wasn't clear on something and I should have been. The
property file is not controlled by my application so I have
to accept it in its present form. Obviously the people who
wrote the controlling application know what they did to get
around the problem but I don't have access to them.

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KenStahl - 08 Oct 2006 23:04 GMT

>> I have a java application that reads a properties file. All is well
>> until I include a property like:
[quoted text clipped - 13 lines]
>
> - Lew

That is all well and fine. I knew WHAT was happening. I just
need to know how to prevent it from happening?

Is my only resort to use StringTokerizer?

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