I finally got it to work using <filetokenizer>. It converted everything in such a way that I could recognize "\n" with the regex "[\n\r]+"; consequently, now I can perform multiline search/replaces. I tried the flags="s", before posting to this mailing list, but I couldn't get it work either. I don't think ant regex likes the newline character that editors produce. Although I spent of time figuring it out, it is working fine now. The plus side is that I read a lot of help pages on regular expressions hoping to find the answer, which I didn't, but I learned a lot about regular expressions and "ant" itself! The negative side is that I decided that what I was doing was unnecessary because it was complicating the build process so I dropped the whole idea; embedding examples inside of resource files would only confuse people. I simply created a "Readme.txt" file to explain how to setup resources instead. I allow comments because resource files can be documented.
Well, i'm glad that tribulation is over! Thanks, -----Original Message----- From: Peter Reilly [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, June 15, 2007 11:29 AM To: Ant Users List; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: replaceregex You normally need the "s" flag to get the pattern to match "\n": from the manual: """ s : Singleline. Treat the string as a single line of input, using "." to match any character, including a newline, which normally, it would not match. """ Peter On 6/15/07, Erica A Ramsey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I think that I see the probem regex is not interpreting newline character > properly. I tryied pattern="[\x0a\x0d]+" and it did not find anything. Why > will it not find it? > > -----Original Message----- > From: Erica A Ramsey [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, June 14, 2007 10:20 PM > To: Ant Users List; [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: RE: replaceregex > > > well, I give up hopefully someone out there can help me. this was my last > try; > <replaceregex pattern="^#example[\s|(?:^#)|.]+^#end example.*" replace="" > flags="g" /> > I thought the pattern specified the following; > lines that start with '#example' > followed one or more of {whitespace OR (lines that do not start with '#') > OR any char} > followed by lines that start with '#' > followed by 'end example' > followed by zero or more of [any character] > where 'whitespace' is in the set {\n\t } > but it does not delete the following sequence; > #example > F1 > F2 > $ > . > #end example junk > > I specified the greedy pattern, '.', last so it doesnt eat '#' before it is > excluded with the expression (?:^#) which I think means exclude lines that > start with '#'. that way the pattern '^#end example.*', lines that start > with '^' followed by 'end example', does not get eaten by greedy '.'. > This is the complete thing I am trying to do. > <copy overwrite="true" file="fields.txt" tofile="fields.rsc"> > <filterchain> > <tokenfilter> > <replaceregex pattern="^#example[\s|(?:^#)|.]+^#end example.*" > replace="" flags="g" /> > <replaceregex pattern="#.*" replace="" flags="g" /> > <deletecharacters chars="\t" /> > <trim /> > <ignoreblank /> > </tokenfilter> > </filterchain> > </copy> > everything but the first regex succeeds :( > basically it strips out comments and everything between '#example' and > '#end example' including newlines. This allows comments, and any examples, > to be stripped out during copy so that the resulting field.rsc file doesn't > have any unneeded stuff in it. This file will then be included in the jar > archive. however, i'm stumped everything that I have tried has failed :( > > -----Original Message----- > From: Scot P. Floess [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, June 14, 2007 3:57 PM > To: Ant Users List > Subject: Re: replaceregex > > > I don't mean to sound smart...but have you tried it? Run a test? > > It might be time better spent if you run a test, it fails then email the > list? > > Erica Ramsey wrote: > > hello, will the following example replace everything between '#example > > ' and > > '#end example.*' ? I am trying to strip the following from a file; > > > > #example -- do not remove this line! > > test1 #comment > > test2 > > $ > > test3 #another comment > > . > > #end example -- do not remove this line! > > > > everything between '#example' and '#end example.*' must be stripped out. > > > > here is my expression: > > <replaceregex pattern="#example(\n.)+#end example.*" replace="" > > flags="g" /> > > > > Thanks! > > > > -- > Scot P. 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