The propertyset type has a negate attribute. maybe that will help you. http://ant.apache.org/manual/Types/propertyset.html
________________________________ From: Steve Amerige <steve.amer...@sas.com> To: Ant Users List <user@ant.apache.org> Sent: Thursday, November 10, 2011 4:50 AM Subject: Re: Negative Lookahead and Regexp Hi all, So, I'm guessing that Ant 1.7+ (with optional Ant-Contrib) doesn't support negative lookahead regex searches. So, I'm refocusing on the main objective here: I want a propertyset that excludes properties matching certain patterns. Any idea as to how to accomplish this? Thanks! Steve Amerige SAS Institute, Deployment Software Development On 11/9/2011 3:40 PM, Steve Amerige wrote: > Hi all, > > Is negative lookahead supported at all in Ant 1.7 and higher (Ant-Contrib, > too)? Maybe my syntax is off: > > <propertyregex property="result" input="a.b.c.bad" select="\1" > regexp="(.*(?!bad))" defaultValue="" override="true"/> > <propertyregex property="result" input="a.b.c.ok" select="\1" > regexp="(.*(?!bad))" defaultValue="" override="true"/> > > The first result should be the empty string and the second result should be > "a.b.c.ok". I'm also looking to use this idea in > <propertyset> to exclude certain properties. > > See the regular expression page on this: > > http://www.regular-expressions.info/lookaround.html
