How to escape evaluation statement in launch file?
I'm trying to have something like this in a launch file:
<arg name="astring" value="today the url is http://mydomain.com/$(date +%Y%m%d)" />
I don't intend for the date expression to evaluate in the launch file. I've tried wrapping the entire string, and individual elements, in single quotes. I've also tried escaping the dollar sign with a backslash, or replacing it with the xml code for a dollar sign. None of this seems to work. How do I pass the contents of the arg's value as a string, no matter what's inside of it?
The hacky solution is to split the string into two:
"today the url is http://mydomain.com/$"and"(date +%Y%m%d)".