title: java force literal when using escape character in jmeter
body: <p>Running Jmeter on XP, I have the following scenario:</p>
  
  <pre><code>Declare the variable "ServerName" with the value 'serverNameValue'
  Declare the a variable "TestResultsFolder" with the value 'c:\results\${ServerName}'
  ... do samplers ...
  Have a simple data writer save result to "${TestResultsFolder}\file"
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Unfortunately, The data writer is saving to 
  '<strong>c:\results\${ServerName}</strong>' instead of '<strong>c:\results\serverNameValue</strong>'</p>
  
  <p>if I put a valid alpha character before the variable, it works:
   '<em>c:\results_${ServerName}</em>' yields '<em>c:\results_serverNameValue</em>'</p>
  
  <p>Thus, it seems that the \ is escaping the variable declaration of $, causing the program NOT to supply the correct value.</p>
  
  <p>Any thoughts on how I might actually obtain <strong><em>c:\results\serverNameValue</em></strong></p>