Hello all,
I am not sure if I can explain this correctly, so I will show you the target
text and then explain the problem
<target name="publish.documents" depends="init, fetch.files,
get.change.list">
<property name="changes.dir" value="C:\dir_viewer\Since_Last_changes"/>
<property name="output.root.dir" value="C:\dir_viewer\Documentation"/>
<for param="file">
<path>
<fileset dir="${changes.dir}" excludes="${dont.convert}"/>
</path>
<sequential>
<!-- construct the destination full filename and path, need to
change the extension to .pdf and the replace the "leading
directory" path
from ${changes.dir} to ${output.root.dir} -->
<propertyregex override="yes"
property="destfile" input="@{file}"
regexp=".*/([^\.]*)\.cpp" replace="\1"/>
<!-- invoke the pdf convertor passing the two files paths -->
<exec executable="C:\Program Files\e-PDF Document Converter
v2.1\doc2pdf.exe">
<arg value="-i"/>
<arg value="@{file}"/>
<arg value="-o"/>
<arg value="${destfile}"/>
</exec>
<!-- after converting the file we can delete the source file -->
<delete file="${file}"/>
</sequential>
</for>
<!-- Now copy over all the remaining files from changes.dir -->
<copy todir="${output.root.dir}">
<fileset dir="${changes.dir}"/>
</copy>
</target>
I copied most of the <for> task text from the example provided in the
ant-contrib documentation and made my modifications.
The problem I am having is in the <propertyregex> task (the first task afterthe
<sequential>), what I want to do is convert filepaths that are provided in the
@{file} attribute from
C:\dir_viewer\Since_Last_changes\abc\yada yada\yada\Bob.doc
to
${output.root.dir}\abc\yada yada\yada\Bob.pdf
I know the code above will not accomplish all that (the <propertyregex> is
incorrect) but I did not know if it was even possible to do that with property
manipulations anyways.
Any ideas,
Thanx,
Ninju
