How to escape double column in Java properties file?

Question

I'm using

com.typesafe.config.ConfigFactory
// some time later 
params("myvar") = config.getString("myvar").trim

the value of the key is a wasb address. It does seem that ":" does not work (as suggested by the error message), i.e.,

wasb":"//rest_of_the_path

What would be the escape character for :?

\: as suggested by javadoc :http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2406975/how-to-escape-the-equals-sign-in-properties-files — hasnae, Jan 20 '16 at 16:36

Tunaki · Accepted Answer · 2016-01-20T16:54:14.477

You are not using the Properties API but TypeSafe Config.

You need to wrap that key into double-quotes. Quoting from TypeSafe Config documentation:

Unquoted strings are used literally, they do not support any kind of escaping. Quoted strings may always be used as an alternative when you need to write a character that is not permitted in an unquoted string.

As such, you key needs to be "wasb://rest_of_the_path"

How to escape double column in Java properties file?

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