RE: Update property value in file and retaining format.

2012-01-19 Thread Emma Burrows
y this is a bit more advanced that i know. > > I don't know the following: > What the "^" means. > What the "$" means. > What the "\1" means. > > > Thanks. > > On Mon, Jan 16, 2012 at 4:38 AM, Emma Burrows >wrote: > > > You'

RE: Update property value in file and retaining format.

2012-01-16 Thread Emma Burrows
You're replacing the entire "Test2=" line with the string "test2=x" which obviously doesn't contain the tab characters. You should probably investigate more sophisticated ways of preserving the original tabs like match="^([ \t]*test2[ \t]*=)(.*)$" replace="\1xxx" I haven't tested it bu

RE: Use Ant with an arbitrary date

2011-12-08 Thread Emma Burrows
> Ant 1.7.1 has a known bug Thanks, I'm glad to know it wasn't just me. :) I probably can update Ant, but as it's also part of our CMS, I'm nervous about writing scripts against a different version - so I have implemented your suggestion first and I'm glad to confirm that it's working now. :)

RE: Use Ant with an arbitrary date

2011-12-08 Thread Emma Burrows
is set. But it is still updated every time there are modified files. Should I be doing something more to get this working? Cheers, Emma Burrows - To unsubscribe, e-mail: user-unsubscr...@ant.apache.org For additional

RE: Use Ant with an arbitrary date

2011-11-29 Thread Emma Burrows
ssuing content "patches". Thanks, Emma Burrows - To unsubscribe, e-mail: user-unsubscr...@ant.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: user-h...@ant.apache.org

RE: Use Ant with an arbitrary date

2011-11-29 Thread Emma Burrows
9:54 To: user@ant.apache.org Subject: Re: Use Ant with an arbitrary date On 2011-11-29, Emma Burrows wrote: > So I was wondering if there was some way of using 's > cache-based approach to only copy the files that have been modified > since a given date/time like "17.00 last Th

Use Ant with an arbitrary date

2011-11-29 Thread Emma Burrows
As part of a content migration project, I am building content into a CMS on a weekly basis, and I use an Ant script to copy the content files to the build directory. Up until now, we've been wiping the CMS and reloading the whole 17,000-file set every time, which takes about 1.5 hours. But now t

RE: Stripping Contents from XML

2011-11-28 Thread Emma Burrows
Hello. Is your input an actual XML file or is it a text file containing all the "[api]" and extra text as indicated? If it's pure text, you'll probably need to investigate using to remove the unwanted text, using a regex pattern to match all the text you don't want - or all the text you do wan