The "\n" in "C:\nb\main" is interpreted as a newline character. Try using
forward slashes - that works even on Windows.
Henk van Voorthuijsen
On May 4, 2011, at 12:36 PM, P.N. wrote:
>
> Hello!
>
> I've trieb to build NetBeans form source and got this error message:
>
> C:\nb\main\nbbuild\build.xml:1408:
> java.util.regex.PatternSyntaxException: Illegal/unsupported escape
> sequence near index 6
> C:\nb\main/(.*)$
> at java.util.regex.Pattern.error(Pattern.java:1804)
> at java.util.regex.Pattern.escape(Pattern.java:2284)
> at java.util.regex.Pattern.atom(Pattern.java:2044)
> ...
>
> The relevant piece of code:
> <pathconvert property="source.dirs" pathsep="," refid="source.dirset">
> <regexpmapper from="${nb_all}/(.*)$" to="\1/**/*" handledirsep="yes"/>
> </pathconvert>
>
> As ${nb_all} is "C:\nb\main", Ant should know it has to handle the whole
> string, but the error position is that of the second backslash.
>
> BTW, I've never used the regexpmapper myself, nor am I a NB developer.
>
> Kind regards
>
> Peter
>
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