Commas in the weblogic.properties file

Question

I hate to ask this question because I'm sure the answer is a)obvious, and
b)well-known, but I'm playing in the slow group today.
How does one include a comma in a property value in the weblogic.properties
file. Specfically, I'm trying to set weblogic.system.startupArgs as follows
weblogic.system.startupArgs.xxxx=sql=select sysdate from dual where
mod(to_number(to_char(sysdate, 'MI')), 2) = 0
The value assigned to the "sql" arg is truncated at the first comma and a
second argument "'MI'))" is created. Very irritating. Any ideas on how to
prevent this from happening?
Ignore the details of the sql statement, its just for testing.
Brian Murray
Management Information Systems
Vanderbilt University

Answer 1

Thanks for the reply, but that didn't seem to work. Escaping the commas
with back-slash delivered the same result.
It seems that since the value for the weblogic.system.startupArgs.xxxx
property can itself be a set of multiple properties, the normal parsing
rules don't apply when the "inner" set of properties is parsed. For
example, if weblogic.properties has
weblogic.system.startupArgs.xxxx=aaaa=X\,Y
then it appears that "startupArgs.xxx" is being assgined "aaaa=X,Y".
However, when the startup class gets the arguments, whatever routine is
parsing the value of "startupArgs.xxx" is seeing the comma and deciding that
there are two properties, not one. So the startup method of my startup
class gets 2 arguments: "aaaa=X" and "Y=".
I tried all the old Korn shell tricks I could remember like aaaa=X\\\,Y.
But all I got was "aaaa=X\" and "Y=".
Any other thoughts or am I trying something I wasn't supposed to do?
----- Original Message -----
From: "Dimitri Rakitine" <[email protected]>
escape commas with \'s
Brian Murray <[email protected]> wrote:
How does one include a comma in a property value in the
weblogic.properties
file. Specfically, I'm trying to set weblogic.system.startupArgs asfollows
>
weblogic.system.startupArgs.xxxx=sql=select sysdate from dual where
mod(to_number(to_char(sysdate, 'MI')), 2) = 0