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Direcotry Delete based on pattern

Direcotry Delete based on pattern

2003-03-17       - By Dominique Devienne
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Implement your own custom selector to select the 'numeric' files within the
fileset. --DD

-----Original Message-----
From: Chris Reeves [mailto:CReeves@(protected)]
Sent: Monday, March 17, 2003 4:00 PM
To: Ant Users List
Subject: RE: Direcotry Delete based on pattern

Can I use a mapper inside a <delete>? Regexp would work to find the
files, I believe.

Chris

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Chaganthi, Madhusudan R. [mailto:mvc9@(protected)]
> Sent: Monday, March 17, 2003 4:44 PM
> To: 'Ant Users List'
> Subject: RE: Direcotry Delete based on pattern
>
>
> I dont know if a task exists as such.
>
> But maybe you can use a few of the existing tasks combined to do this.
>
>
> PSEUDO-CODE
> Can you not get the name of each directory and parse it into an int.
>
> If the parsing goes fine, delete that directory
>
> If parsing throws a FormatException or something on those
> lines, leave that directory alone.
>
>
>
> Either way, I would appreciate the solution you turn to.
>
> Regards
>
> Madhu
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Chris Reeves [mailto:CReeves@(protected)]
> Sent: Monday, March 17, 2003 4:37 PM
> To: user@(protected)
> Subject: Direcotry Delete based on pattern
>
>
> I have a load of directories, all with numeric names (e.g. 123, 734,
> 231) - hundreds of them.
>
> I need to delete all these directories, while leaving any
> directories with non-numeric names intact.
>
> I thought I could use a patternset, but that won't do it. Any
> suggestions?
>
> Chris
>
> ----------------------------------------
> Chris Reeves
> Senior Software Developer
> Medfusion, Inc.
> creeves@(protected)
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