Hi all,
> If there currently isn't a way of achieving this, > then I can put > something together for it (and get paid for it :)
Well yesterday I was sick as a dog, but tuesday night I hacked together a very simple substring task (with antunit tests) on the off-chance that there wasn't a simple way of getting the result I was after...
It seems like some combination of string resources, tokens resource collections, and regex filters might give you substringing capabilities.
This was what I was thinking, but the combination seemed to be much more complex than writing a specialized task.
Beyond that, another idea that occurs to me is that, if you're being paid to develop this... ;), PropertyHelpers have been for quite some time in need of refinement as to how a user can easily register a custom PropertyHelper. If we could ever get this off our plate we could close e.g. the myriad requests for nested property resolution. How does this relate? In that it strikes me as a natural idea that there be a custom PropertyHelper that implements the substringing, defaulting, etc. extensions found in the bash shell (probably came from some other shell but I don't feel like researching the origin just to make my point).
Hmm, I personally haven't looked at the PropertyHelper code very much (if at all). I will have a dig around today and see what's happening in there. As I was sick yesterday, I'm behind on my other tasks, so I may not be able to work on this until next week (if I get the go-ahead from the boss to do Ant coding). Thanks for the suggestion, Kev --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
