Question: If the ? char is a specified char ?

Experts,
   I wrote a task and pass a parameter in. details as follows:

MSBuild file
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<ItemGroup>
   <MyItems Include="c:\common3. \*.*"></ADDL_LIB>
   <MyItems Include="c:\nodes.600\*.*"></ADDL_LIB>
</ItemGroup>
<Target Name="MyTask1">
    <CopyMyTask
    PARAMS=="@(MyItems)"/>
</Target>

   In my task, I can get the PARAMS parameter. However, MSBuild only pass a member (c:\nodes.600\*.*) to task and the count of PARAMS' member is 1. I don't know why the member (c:\common3. \*.*) is missed by MSBuild. Could anyone can help me

Thanks,
Hercules

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Question: If the ? char is a specified char ?

Ram .Net Design Architect
Hercules,

The " " character, like the "*" character, is treated specially by MSBuild as a wildcard - it matches exactly one character. This behavior is consistent with cmd.exe. So examples that would match in this case:

c:\common3.a\Class1.cs
c:\common3.a\MyProject.csproj
c:\common3.1\Class1.vb
c:\common3.1\MyProject.vbproj

etc.

If MSBuild does not find a match, it will not add any items to the MyItems list.

Does that help

thanks,
jeff
tester on msbuild
curous_rosebud
If you write %3f instead of then it should be treated as a literal character instead of a wildcard. 3f is the hex code for .

Dan
Question: If the ? char is a specified char ?

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