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Ant 1.5.4: How to do general text transformations on a file?

Ant 1.5.4: How to do general text transformations on a file?

2005-06-24       - By Jeffrey E Care
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Are you escaping with a backslash or "<" ?

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Jeffrey E. Care (carej@(protected))
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"Karr, David" <david.karr@(protected)> wrote on 06/24/2005 11:47:11 AM:

> Minor issue with this: It appears that the regexp pattern cannot
> include the "<" character, even if it's escaped.  This isn't
> mentioned in the documentation.  In my case, it's relatively safe to
> just replace that with "." in the pattern, but I was wondering about
this.
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Jan.Materne@(protected) [mailto:Jan.Materne@(protected)]
> > Sent: Thursday, June 23, 2005 10:19 PM
> > To: user@(protected)
> > Subject: AW: Ant 1.5.4: How to do general text
> > transformations on a file?
> >
> >
> > Just an idea
> >
> > <replaceregexp byline="true">
> >   <regexp pattern="..(.*)"/>
> >   <substitution expression="\1"/>
> >
> >   <fileset ...>
> >
> > </replaceregexp>
> >
> >
> > Jan
> >
> > >-----Urspr?ngliche Nachricht-----
> > >Von: Karr, David [mailto:david.karr@(protected)]
> > >Gesendet: Freitag, 24. Juni 2005 06:31
> > >An: Ant Users List
> > >Betreff: Ant 1.5.4: How to do general text transformations on a file?
> > >
> > >Due to a bug in the Weblogic wlwBuild task (it doesn't matter
> > >what the bug is), I'm trying to figure out how I can do a
> > >simple text transformation on every line of a text file.  In
> > >particular, I need to remove the first two characters from
> > >every line of a file.  It's simply a question of whether it's
> > >easier to develop a workaround or work with BEA to get a fix
> > >for the bug.  If doing this transformation is easy to do (I
> > >don't see how to do it), then I'll settle for this for now and
> > >work with BEA in the background.
> > >
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