Minor issue with this: It appears that the regexp pattern cannot include the "<" character, even if it's escaped. This isn't mentioned in the documentation. In my case, it's relatively safe to just replace that with "." in the pattern, but I was wondering about this.
> -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, June 23, 2005 10:19 PM > To: user@ant.apache.org > Subject: AW: Ant 1.5.4: How to do general text > transformations on a file? > > > Just an idea > > <replaceregexp byline="true"> > <regexp pattern="..(.*)"/> > <substitution expression="\1"/> > > <fileset ...> > > </replaceregexp> > > > Jan > > >-----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- > >Von: Karr, David [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > >Gesendet: Freitag, 24. Juni 2005 06:31 > >An: Ant Users List > >Betreff: Ant 1.5.4: How to do general text transformations on a file? > > > >Due to a bug in the Weblogic wlwBuild task (it doesn't matter > >what the bug is), I'm trying to figure out how I can do a > >simple text transformation on every line of a text file. In > >particular, I need to remove the first two characters from > >every line of a file. It's simply a question of whether it's > >easier to develop a workaround or work with BEA to get a fix > >for the bug. If doing this transformation is easy to do (I > >don't see how to do it), then I'll settle for this for now and > >work with BEA in the background. > > > >--------------------------------------------------------------------- > >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] > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
