It's for a j2me project I'm working on where I need to retrieve some Strings from a messages.properties files where the first characters of the Strings are spaces.
If the first character of a value in a properties file is a white space, you need to escape it using a backslash.
See the JavaDoc for Properties.load for more detailed explanation.
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James Hodgkiss
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Cheers guys.
Yeah, I hit the wrong button. (I was wondering why I had to enter the message subject again... )
There are no double apostrophes in the properties file, hence leading spaces aren't detected. But I had a look at the Properties javadoc, and the escape sequence for a space is "\ ", so my properties file entry is now like:
thisKey = \ \ \ some string where the first three chars are spaces!
Thanks again, James
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subject: Does anyone know if there is an escape character that represents a space?
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You should have just replied.
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