[news.eclipse.tools.jdt] Re: Dot arguments expanded during launch

["Darin Wright" <Darin_Wright@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Well, this surpised me too... but it's not Eclispe - the same thing happens 
from the DOS command line. Using ".*" (i.e. quotes) worked from the command 
line, but not from Eclipse... not sure what the answer is yet.

Darin Wright

"Barry Lay" <blay@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message 
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>I have a program that expects a regular expression as part of its 
>command-line arguments.  When I tried putting ".*" in the Program Arguments 
>section of the Run Dialog, the program actually gets ".classpath .project 
>.settings" as arguments.  I can't find where this behaviour is documented; 
>all of the variables seem to be of the form "${whatever}".
>
> Can this "feature" be disabled?
>
> I have seen this on both 3.2 and 3.3.
>
> Thanks.