Are you escaping with a backslash or "<" ? -- Jeffrey E. Care ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) WebSphere Build SWAT Team Lead WebSphere Build Tooling Lead (Project Mantis) https://w3.opensource.ibm.com/projects/mantis
"Karr, David" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 06/24/2005 11:47:11 AM: > 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] >