[Jsap-users] Escape characters

[Marty Lamb]

Bob -

I believe that on Windows you can escape pretty much anything with the ^ 
character.  I don't have a Windows machine handy, but I'd try "^>".

Cheers,

Marty
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Marty Lamb
Martian Software, Inc.
mlamb at martiansoftware dot com

> Subject: Escape characters
> From: Bob Swift <bob.swift at charter.net>
> Date: Tue, 16 Jun 2009 08:23:56 -0500
> To: jsap-users at martiansoftware.com
> 
> I am having trouble on Windows with string parameters that contain 
> various special characters.  I can escape a double quote by using a 
> backslash (\").  That works.  However, if the string that follows 
> contains a >, then Windows has a problem with that - it interprets it as 
> a redirection.  How do you deal with this?
> 
> For instance:
> --myparameter " \" >"
> The system cannot find the path specified.