Reading Java Properties file without escaping values

Question

My application needs to use a .properties file for configuration. In the properties files, users are allow to specify paths.

Problem

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Answer 1

@pdeva: one more solution

//Reads entire file in a String 
//available in java1.5
Scanner scan = new Scanner(new File("C:/workspace/Test/src/myfile.properties"));   
scan.useDelimiter("\\Z");   
String content = scan.next();

//Use apache StringEscapeUtils.escapeJava() method to escape java characters
ByteArrayInputStream bi=new ByteArrayInputStream(StringEscapeUtils.escapeJava(content).getBytes());

//load properties file
Properties properties = new Properties(); 
properties.load(bi);