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Subject: Re: Malformed \uxxxx encoding in propertyfile task - \u in
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From: Peter West <lists@pbw.id.au>
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Date: Wed, 12 Jun 2013 10:55:21 +1000
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Hello Michael,

As far as I know, you can't edit arbitrary files with the propertyfile =
task. The files have to be valid Java property files. For the =
restrictions on property files, see java.util.Properties load(Reader =
reader) at http://docs.oracle.com/javase/7/docs/api/

Peter West

"And all ate and were satisfied."

On 11/06/2013, at 11:30 PM, Michael Niemand <michael.niemand@gmail.com> =
wrote:

> Dear Ant-users,
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> I get the error below with an Ant skript I wrote.
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> I already did some googling and found out, that the problem lies with
> strings containing \u, which happens under Windows because of the =
directory
> separator. I changed all those to / but the error remains.
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> There are definitely no remaining \u strings in my script.
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> java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Malformed \uxxxx encoding.
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> The error occurs when executing the propertyfile task, so I examined =
the
> file I want to change. This on the other hand contains multiple \u =
strings.
> The file has no relation to ant though, it's a borland project file =
(xml)
> which contains one line like [someParameter]=3D[someValue].
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> I just want to increase [someValue] by 1.
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> So my question is:
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> Can the property file I want to change cause the error mentioned
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> and if the answer is "yes",
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> What can I do, *other than* doing it with a regex task (like finding =
the
> line, propertyregex-ing the value, math+1 the value and =
regex-replacing the
> value)
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> Unfortunately I have no influence on the property file, other than the
> mentioned value.
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> regards,
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> Michael


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