Re: xbuild: Including backslashes that shouldn't get converted to forward slashes
"Andres G. Aragoneses" <[email protected]>
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On 15/06/15 20:42, Andres G. Aragoneses wrote: > On 15/06/15 19:34, Matt Zinkevicius wrote: >> I have an msbuild/xbuild file which uses the Exec task to invoke a >> command >> line tool. The tool takes a regular expression as a parameter, which >> in my >> case contains a backslash (\) character. It seems that xbuild converts >> all >> backslashes into forward slashes, as they usually represent a directory >> separation character, but in this specific case I need it passed without >> conversion. I have tried escaping (\\) and encoding (\) but neither >> worked. >> >> How can this be achieved? > > It's probably an xbuild bug, as it should only try to convert the first > element, not the arguments. I take that back, since the arguments can contain file paths too. I guess this is a hard problem to solve. Maybe the \ -> / conversion should only live in the IO layer, not in the xbuild layer. _______________________________________________ Mono-list maillist - [email protected] http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/mono-list