Re: Regular expression to match non-breaking spaces

[Brian Agnew]

You might want to try XMLTask, which reads XML natively and handles the 
specified character encodings. It'll do regexp replacements.

http://www.oopsconsultancy.com/software/xmltask
On 11/03/2011 18:26, Peter Desjardins wrote:
Hi. I'm trying to replace every non-breaking space character in a file
with a normal space character. The source file is encoded using UTF-8.
I can't get this to work using the replaceregexp task. Here's the
syntax I'm using:

   <replaceregexp file="myfile.xml" match="&#xa0;" replace=" "
flags="g" byline="true" encoding="utf-8" />

I've tried other ways to match non-breaking spaces (&#160; \0240
U+00A0) but have had no success yet. I didn't alter the regular
expression libraries in my Ant installation. Is that what I need to
do? Or is there a string I can put into the match attribute that will
match UTF-8 non-breaking spaces?

Thanks for your help.

Peter Desjardins

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