Aha, then the solution seems quite simple indeed:
<path id="temp-buildroot">
<pathelement location="${build.root}"/>
</path>
<pathconvert
dirsep="/"
property="regexp-compliant.buildroot"
refid="temp-buildroot"/>
<echo>converted buildroot: ${regexp-compliant.buildroot}</echo>
Thanks, Stefan!
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Svetlin
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Stefan Bodewig [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Monday, August 11, 2003 8:54 AM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: bug or feature in <replaceregexp/> ?
>
>
> On Fri, 8 Aug 2003, Svetlin Stanchev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > ${build.root} is set in the (Windows) environment to
> > d:\CleanStart\buildroot.
>
> this is the problem, in order to get the regular expression
> engine to accept the backslashes, you have to double them.
>
> Stefan
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