You need to look into the documentation of the regexp package you have Ant setup to use (the default is java.util.regex in JDK 1.4; you can find docs for it here: http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.4.2/docs/api/java/util/regex/Pattern.html).
The quantifier you used, '*', is characterized as a greedy quantifier. Try '*?' (reluctant quantifier). HTH, David -----Original Message----- From: Nicolas Vervelle [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, March 24, 2005 23:36 To: user@ant.apache.org Subject: replaceregexp on multiple lines Hi, I have a file containing several times something like (xx is different) : <language lang="xx"> <a>...</a> </language> For some of them (depending on "xx"), I want to keep only the <a>...<.a> part. For the others, I wan to completely remove them. I tried this : <replaceregexp match='<language lang="@{current.language}">(.*) </language>' replace='\1' flags='gm'> <fileset dir="@{current.dir}" includes="index.*.html"/> </replaceregexp> but the problem if pattern is first matched with the text between the first <language lang="xx"> of the file and the last </language> and not closest one. Is there an other way to replace the text ? TIA, Nicolas --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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]
