Re: Regular expression to match non-breaking spaces
Peter, >> > flags="g" byline="true" encoding="utf-8" /> I assume that Ant's XML parse will digest your character reference. In effect you are doing nothing more than Have you tried something like instead? // Wolfgang On Sat, Mar 12, 2011 at 12:48 AM, Brian Agnew wrote: > You might want to try XMLTask, which reads XML natively and handles the > specified character encodings. It'll do regexp replacements. > > http://www.oopsconsultancy.com/software/xmltask > > On 11/03/2011 18:26, Peter Desjardins wrote: >> >> Hi. I'm trying to replace every non-breaking space character in a file >> with a normal space character. The source file is encoded using UTF-8. >> I can't get this to work using the replaceregexp task. Here's the >> syntax I'm using: >> >> > flags="g" byline="true" encoding="utf-8" /> >> >> I've tried other ways to match non-breaking spaces ( \0240 >> U+00A0) but have had no success yet. I didn't alter the regular >> expression libraries in my Ant installation. Is that what I need to >> do? Or is there a string I can put into the match attribute that will >> match UTF-8 non-breaking spaces? >> >> Thanks for your help. >> >> Peter Desjardins >> >> - >> To unsubscribe, e-mail: user-unsubscr...@ant.apache.org >> For additional commands, e-mail: user-h...@ant.apache.org >> > > -- > Brian Agnew http://www.oopsconsultancy.com > OOPS Consultancy Ltd > Tel: +44 (0)7720 397526 > Fax: +44 (0)20 8682 0012 > > > - > To unsubscribe, e-mail: user-unsubscr...@ant.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: user-h...@ant.apache.org > > -- Wolfgang Häfelinger häfelinger IT - Applied Software Architecture http://www.haefelinger.it +31 648 27 61 59 - To unsubscribe, e-mail: user-unsubscr...@ant.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: user-h...@ant.apache.org
Re: How to manage properties for identical tasks/macros run in parallel?
Any ideas anyone ?
Thanks in advance,
Parag Doke
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On Mon, Mar 7, 2011 at 12:52 PM, Parag Doke wrote:
> Hello ant users.
> I am facing an issue with handling properties with calls to tasks/macros
> nested within the parallel task. More of a logical/approach related issue
> rather than anything with the tool itself. Here go the details:
> Using ant:
> Apache Ant version 1.8.1 compiled on April 30 2010
> With Java:
> java version "1.6.0_22"
> Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment (build 1.6.0_22-b04)
> Java HotSpot(TM) Client VM (build 17.1-b03, mixed mode, sharing)
> The most relevant part of the build.xml:
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>
>
> mySleep is my own macro with the following declaration:
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> Now working with ${myProp}
>
>
> Since properties are immutable, if it so happens that the 4th macro call
> sets the property, the rest of them cannot modify it. A quick alternative to
> this might be using the variable task (in place of property) from
> ant-contrib.sf.net. However, the above is just an example. In reality, my
> macro does an exec call. The outputproperty attribute to the exec call will
> be what I need to process later.
> So I guess my questions are:
> 1) What is the best approach to handle properties/variables for (almost)
> identical macro calls ? I cannot modify the property name each time. I could
> redirect stdout/stderr of the exec task to some file. But not sure how to
> guarantee that the file will be unique and not get overwritten if 2 tasks
> finish at the same instant of time.
> 2) Can the outputproperty value be captured in a variable directly ? I read
> that it is possible to use the ant-contrib propertycopy task to get one
> property value into another. But then there is a risk that the copy might
> not be synchronized ...
> The last option I have is of course to get rid of the parallel task and let
> the macros run one after the other. But that would be modifying the
> requirement to suit the scripting limitation I've run into. So I thought of
> asking here before jumping on any implementation.
> Thanks in advance for any pointers,
> Parag Doke
> Save paper, save trees. Do not print emails/documents unless absolutely
> necessary.
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Re: How to manage properties for identical tasks/macros run in parallel?
You should see the task, whereby you can set up scoped
property "shadowing."
Matt
On Sat, Mar 12, 2011 at 10:59 PM, Parag Doke
wrote:
> Any ideas anyone ?
> Thanks in advance,
> Parag Doke
> Save paper, save trees. Do not print emails/documents unless
> absolutely necessary.
>
>
>
> On Mon, Mar 7, 2011 at 12:52 PM, Parag Doke
> wrote:
>> Hello ant users.
>> I am facing an issue with handling properties with calls to tasks/macros
>> nested within the parallel task. More of a logical/approach related issue
>> rather than anything with the tool itself. Here go the details:
>> Using ant:
>> Apache Ant version 1.8.1 compiled on April 30 2010
>> With Java:
>> java version "1.6.0_22"
>> Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment (build 1.6.0_22-b04)
>> Java HotSpot(TM) Client VM (build 17.1-b03, mixed mode, sharing)
>> The most relevant part of the build.xml:
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> mySleep is my own macro with the following declaration:
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> Now working with ${myProp}
>>
>>
>> Since properties are immutable, if it so happens that the 4th macro call
>> sets the property, the rest of them cannot modify it. A quick alternative to
>> this might be using the variable task (in place of property) from
>> ant-contrib.sf.net. However, the above is just an example. In reality, my
>> macro does an exec call. The outputproperty attribute to the exec call will
>> be what I need to process later.
>> So I guess my questions are:
>> 1) What is the best approach to handle properties/variables for (almost)
>> identical macro calls ? I cannot modify the property name each time. I could
>> redirect stdout/stderr of the exec task to some file. But not sure how to
>> guarantee that the file will be unique and not get overwritten if 2 tasks
>> finish at the same instant of time.
>> 2) Can the outputproperty value be captured in a variable directly ? I read
>> that it is possible to use the ant-contrib propertycopy task to get one
>> property value into another. But then there is a risk that the copy might
>> not be synchronized ...
>> The last option I have is of course to get rid of the parallel task and let
>> the macros run one after the other. But that would be modifying the
>> requirement to suit the scripting limitation I've run into. So I thought of
>> asking here before jumping on any implementation.
>> Thanks in advance for any pointers,
>> Parag Doke
>> Save paper, save trees. Do not print emails/documents unless absolutely
>> necessary.
>>
>
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