I am not satisfied with the way the replace task is manipulating line endings either. The code is doing some arbitrary replacements of line endings in tokens and values, assuming that the user always want the line ending inside the tokens and values to be the platform default. My understanding is that the XML parser is always returning lines separated with \n, and that is not OK for users working under Windows and wanting to do replacements inside files having the normal Windows line endings of \r\n. The solution will be to add some new attributes to the replace task, to specify how to handle the tokens and values. My suggestion would be to create 2 new multivalued (EnumeratedAttribute class) attributes called lineendingtoken and lineendingvalue, with a similar choice of values as in the fixcrlf task, so that users doing some cross-platform work can achieve what they want. I saw this problem because I am using cygwin and particularly cygwin cvs to download the files of ant, including the testcases and their data. So I have had to fixcrlf a bunch of files in the ReplaceTest testcase to make it pass for me. Cheers, Antoine
-----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- Von: Yu, John [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Gesendet: Mittwoch, 15. Oktober 2003 19:08 An: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Betreff: Use Replace task for multiple line not working with line ending character 0x0a Hi, I posted this question in the user list, but thought it probably should come here. I'm woring on Windows2000. I'm trying to locate/replace certain consecutive lines in some source files, which has line ending character as 0x0a. It's not happening. After checking the source code, I can see that Ant is expecting line ending character to be the same as the one got from system property. My questions are: 1. Is there any way to get around this? 2. Any plan to support different line ending character in the future? Thanks, John The contents of this e-mail are intended for the named addressee only. It contains information that may be confidential. Unless you are the named addressee or an authorized designee, you may not copy or use it, or disclose it to anyone else. If you received it in error please notify us immediately and then destroy it. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
