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

[Barry Lay <blay@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Yes, it looks like some kind of DOS problem.  I didn't see the issue at 
first since my test didn't match what Eclipse is doing.

My apologies for any dispersions.  I will try my luck with the real 
culprits:)

Thanks for the help.
Barry

Darin Wright wrote:
> The replacements are file name expansions/matches in the working 
> directory... i.e. files that start with "." (dot). I also tried other 
> patterns and got the same behavior.
>
> Darin
>
> "Barry Lay" <blay@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message 
> news:f9r560$cc9$1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > I am not sure what you mean by your answer.  When I run my sample program 
> > from the DOS command line I get what I expect.  I don't know how DOS would 
> > come up with such a creative set of replacements anyway.
> >
> > I am pretty sure this is Eclipse doing this as I originally found this in 
> > a program that had the JET nature enabled.  In that case .jetproperties 
> > showed up in the replaced parms as well.
> >
> > Barry
> >
> > Darin Wright wrote:
> > > Well, this surpised me too... but it's not Eclispe - the same thing 
> > > happens from the DOS command line. Using ".*" (i.e. quotes) worked from 
> > > the command line, but not from Eclipse... not sure what the answer is 
> > > yet.
> > >
> > > Darin Wright
> > >
> > > "Barry Lay" <blay@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message 
> > > news:f9l1jb$kbe$1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > > > I have a program that expects a regular expression as part of its 
> > > > command-line arguments.  When I tried putting ".*" in the Program 
> > > > Arguments section of the Run Dialog, the program actually gets 
> > > > ".classpath .project .settings" as arguments.  I can't find where this 
> > > > behaviour is documented; all of the variables seem to be of the form 
> > > > "${whatever}".
> > > >
> > > > Can this "feature" be disabled?
> > > >
> > > > I have seen this on both 3.2 and 3.3.
> > > >
> > > > Thanks.