quoting and escaping in java @argfiles

[Roman Shevchenko]

I see. It didn’t occur to me that the escaping only works inside the quotes.

Back-ticks were meant to enclose the example, Markdown-style.

Thanks!

> On 8. Aug 2017, at 20:36, Jonathan Gibbons <jonathan.gibbons at oracle.com> wrote:
> 
> Yes, @-files should support this.
> 
> Escape sequences are only allowed in quoted strings, and strings can be quoted with either
> single or double quotes (' or ").
> 
> It is not clear from the example in your message whether the back-ticks (`) were meant to enclose
> the example or as part of the example.
> 
> -- Jon
> 
> On 08/08/2017 11:20 AM, Roman Shevchenko wrote:
>> Hello,
>> 
>> is it possible to use @argfiles to pass main class parameters which may
>> contain any sort of special cases described in [1] (double quotes, leading
>> hash signs, etc.)? A backslash doesn't seem to work as a general escape
>> symbol - e.g. the line `\#not-a-comment` is still ignored by the launcher.
>> 
>> [1]
>> https://docs.oracle.com/javase/9/tools/java.htm#JSWOR-GUID-4856361B-8BFD-4964-AE84-121F5F6CF111
>> 
>