Special characters with ANT

Question

Hi All,
I am creating ANT script that suppose to run under the Windows XP.
I am trying to create number of properties in my config.ini file with propertyfile tag .
I have code that suppose to add directory name to the config.ini file :
<propertyfile name="${dir.main}\config.ini>
<entry key="main.directory.name" value="f:\mydir />
</propertyfile>
but what I actually receiving inside my config.ini file after the running of my ANT script is something like that
main.directory.name=f\:\\mydir
I will use this property with java on XP machine afterwords ,
and defenetly windows woudn know what to do with that additional slash before the colon.
thank you for your help.

Answer 1

The format of "properties" files is not 100% compatible with the format of ".INI" files.
They have no "[section]"s, some characters are escaped, you can use ":" or "tab" or "space" as a separator instead of "=", and a long value can be split through several lines using a backslash at the end of the lines, as this:
key : value value value\
value value value\
value value too long\
to be put in a single lineTry to express such thing using an ".INI" file...
If you must write a ".INI" file, list the properties manually, in the correct format, instead of simply expecting that the formats would be perfectly read by both systems.