Try using < for the < character. Ant is in an XML file so you should use the element names for XML reserved characters.
HTH Bill -----Original Message----- From: Karr, David [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, June 24, 2005 8:47 AM To: Ant Users List Subject: RE: Ant 1.5.4: How to do general text transformations on a file? 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] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
