Can the key in a Java property include a blank character?

Question

We are getting properties (that we can not influence) out of a database and want to access them by a key/value mapping. We are facing the problem that one of the property ke

Answer 1

You can escape every thing in properties file with Java Unicode:

• \u003d for =
• \u0020 for whitespace

For example:

foo bar = barefoot

must be:

foo\u0020bar\u0020=\u0020barefoot

So will be:

key: "foo bar "
value: " barefoot"