On 7/11/06, Matt Benson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
--- Aaron Davies <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On 7/11/06, Dominique Devienne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> wrote:
> So which approach are you going to be taking? Adding
> a "not" attribute
> to the relevant filters sounds like the simplest to
> me.
I understand your position, but from my own viewpoint
I would rather write a single "unmodified"
FilterReader that nests another FilterReader than add
negation logic to all Ant's existing built-in
FilterReaders, plus place the burden on the author of
any not yet written, imposing a handicap on any
preexisting FilterReader implementation, etc., etc.
Again, the concept of a single negation filter
originated, as far as I know, with me (yes, I know
it's impossible to have a truly original thought, but
to the best I can tell I was the first person to
suggest it in the context of Ant). It is a preference
of mine to have small, reusable pieces... an echo of
the Unix philosophy and probably relating to AOP as
well. While my original concept of a <not> filter was
shown to be impractical, <unmodified> seems a fairly
easy concept to grasp. Its most complex aspect would
probably be the fact that it should have the ability
to use tempfiles if applied to too-large data, but
this could be left as a todo (I don't think most of
Ant's built-in filters deal too well with HUGE input).
So... in there you can find my answer and its
justification.
So how exactly would you use this with a grep? A simple
linecontains/linecontainsregexp doesn't modify the lines it matches,
AFAIK.
-Matt
>
> > By all means, be my guest Matt ;-) --DD
> >
> > On 7/11/06, Matt Benson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> wrote:
> > > --- Dominique Devienne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> wrote:
> > >
> > > > this are not conditions, but filters. There's
> no
> > > > <not>.
> > > >
> > > > I guess a negate attribute on
> <linecontains[regexp]>
> > > > would be
> > > > required, or a <unchanged> weird pseudo filter
> that
> > > > accept a nested
> > > > filter, and 'reverses' the nested filter's
> job, by
> > > > accepting only
> > > > lines unchanged by the nested filter.
> > >
> > > Hmm... I like that. Semantically superior to
> <not>
> > > wrt to filters and covers all of what could
> reasonably
> > > be expected of the hypothetical "not filter."
> Do you
> > > want to write it or should I? ;)
> > >
> > > -Matt
> > >
> > > >
> > > > Or some regexp wizardry of course. --DD
> > > >
> > > > On 7/11/06, Master, Tariq (Abbeywood)
> > > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > > I'm sure I read an example in the ant manual
> using
> > > > the <not> element.
> > > > > (having inet access issues so no direct
> linke -
> > > > sorry)
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > > -----Original Message-----
> > > > > From: Aaron Davies
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > > > > Sent: 11 July 2006 16:20
> > > > > To: Ant Users
> > > > > Subject: Line *Doesn't* Contain?
> > > > >
> > > > > How can I do a negative filter in a
> filterchain?
> > > > I've tried to use a
> > > > > negative lookahead regexp /.*(?!foo).*/, but
> so
> > > > far no luck.
> > > > > --
> > > > > Aaron Davies
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