Re: Passing tab char in command line

alejandrina wrote:
Hi all,

I want to pass a tab character as a command line parameter. Ihave this
statement to extract a char from the string:

char delim = args[0].charAt(0);

The problem is how do you write the command line? I've tried all of
these:

java testTab "\t"
java testTab "\\t"
java testTab \t
java testTab \\t
java testTab "\u0009"
java testTab \u0009

none work. "delim" above never gets the right character. Interestingly,
when I submit

java testTab "\u0009" or
java testTab "\\t"


args[0] contains a string of length = 2, the first character being "\"
and the second is the tab. Obviously, the parser feels the need to
"escape" my backslash character. How do you disable this behavior?

<insert what everyone else said about shells />

If the shell doesn't do the kind of character substitution you want, the testTab.main (should that be TestTab?) routine could check for sequences like \t and interpret them itself.
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