It may be as simple as using / instead of file.separator. Give it a try!
-Matt
--- On Mon, 9/7/09, Daniel Steinmann <dsteinm...@acm.org> wrote:
> From: Daniel Steinmann <dsteinm...@acm.org>
> Subject: Re: Delete N directories that match a regexp
> To: user@ant.apache.org
> Date: Monday, September 7, 2009, 6:28 AM
>
>
> Matt Benson wrote:
> >
> >
> > (given same dirset id=ds)
> > <pathconvert refid="ds"
> property="includes" pathsep="${line.separator}">
> > <regexpmapper from="(^.*$)"
> to="\1${file.separator}**" />
> > </pathconvert>
> > <echo
> file="includesfile">${includes}</echo>
> > <delete>
> > <files
> includesfile="includesfile" />
> > </delete>
> > <delete file="includesfile" />
> >
> >
>
> Great tip!
>
> But I have problems with the to= part of the regex pattern
> on Windows. The
> file.separator on Windows is the backslash, which is the
> escape character
> for the regex. Therefore the file will include patterns
> like 'foo\bar**'
> instead of 'foo\bar\**'. And then the delete does not
> work.
>
> Do you have some more magic to make it work on Windows as
> well?
>
> Thanks,
> Daniel
>
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