Writing to .properties file

[Subhendu Dash]

While writing to a .properties file using file output stream , i am getting an unexpected '\' escape sequence in it.How to avoid it??

Please Help

[Jesper de Jong]

What does your code look like?

I'm going to guess that you did something like this:

props.store(new FileOutputStream(new File("C:\Some\Path\Myfile.properties")), "");

Note that \ is an escape character in Java string literals. You know: \n means linefeed, \r means carriage return, \t means tab and so on. If you want to have a backslash in a string, you have to make it a double backslash, otherwise Java is going to interpret the backslash and the following character as an escape sequence, and \S, \P and \M are not valid escape sequences.

props.store(new FileOutputStream(new File("C:\\Some\\Path\\Myfile.properties")), "");