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

Propert

Answer 1

It's not an exact answer to your question, but a different solution that may be appropriate to your needs. In Java, you can use / as a path separator and it'll work on both Windows, Linux, and OSX. This is specially useful for relative paths.

In your example, you could use:

dir = c:/mydir