MSBuild Force Item Include被视为自定义/文字

Question

I am defining my own Item in and ItemGroup where I have custom values that I don't want to be evaluated to paths

When I try to do transforms, the ./ is being treated as a path and so I only get a single item for transforms and batching.

How can I force the . at the end to be treated as a literal?

Answer 1

For using special characters in the Include attribute you can use the hexadecimal representations of the ASCII characters. For example the symbol . will be represents as 2e . The percent symbol always precedes the hexadecimal representation: %2e .

You can get the full list of special characters to escape from the official documentation .

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Special characters to escape | ASCII to Hex text converter