From 8e410f0f18af59a1726e34166b0633dc97723c41 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Peter Reilly <peterreilly@apache.org>
Date: Fri, 17 Dec 2004 14:55:47 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] clarify the use of file.separator character for regexpression

git-svn-id: https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/ant/core/trunk@277245 13f79535-47bb-0310-9956-ffa450edef68
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 docs/manual/CoreTypes/mapper.html | 7 ++++++-
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/docs/manual/CoreTypes/mapper.html b/docs/manual/CoreTypes/mapper.html
index 15d97d4e2..1c2a2a624 100644
--- a/docs/manual/CoreTypes/mapper.html
+++ b/docs/manual/CoreTypes/mapper.html
@@ -66,7 +66,12 @@ with the following attributes:</p>
 <p>Note that Ant will not automatically convert / or \ characters in
 the <code>to</code> and <code>from</code> attributes to the correct
 directory separator of your current platform.  If you need to specify
-this separator, use <code>${file.separator}</code> instead.</p>
+this separator, use <code>${file.separator}</code> instead.
+  For the regexpmapper, <code>${file.separator}</code> will not work,
+as on windows it is the '\' character, and this is an escape character
+for regular expressions, one should use the <code>handledirchar</code> attribute
+instead.
+</p>
 <h3>Parameters specified as nested elements</h3>
 <p>The classpath can be specified via a nested
 <code>&lt;classpath&gt;</code>, as well - that is,