Regular Expression Replacing

[Matt Raible <ma...@raibledesigns.com>]

Lets see if I can make this question a bit easier.  How do I
<replaceregexp> to replace remove "-" (dashes) from a string?

Thanks,

Matt

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Matt Raible [mailto:matt@raibledesigns.com] 
> Sent: Wednesday, February 26, 2003 7:22 AM
> To: user@ant.apache.org
> Subject: Creating a project from the current one
> 
> 
> I have the following task that creates a new project using 
> the existing one. 
> I'm having a problem with replacing the current project name 
> with the new project name.  This is b/c my "new" project name 
> contains a dash, and my dbname and project are named the same 
> in the old project.
> 
> For some context, my existing project is named "appfuse" and 
> the one I want to create is "struts-resume".  I can't have a 
> database named "struts-resume", so I want to detect a dash 
> and either (1) prompt the user for a new dbname, or
> (2) rename the database to be the last half of the name "resume". 
> 
> The basic idea is to create a new project using "appfuse" as 
> a starting point.
> 
> 	<target name="new" depends="clean" 
>         description="creates a new project with the specified name">
>         <fail unless="app.name">
>             You must specify an app.name using -Dapp.name=NAME
>         </fail>
>         <echo level="info">Creating new application named 
> '${app.name}'...</echo>
>         <copy todir="../${app.name}">
>         <fileset dir="${basedir}">
>             <exclude name="README*.txt"/>
>             <exclude name="${webapp.name}*"/>
>             <exclude name=".*"/>
>             <exclude name="*.log"/>
>             <include name="**"/>
>         </fileset>
>         </copy>
>         <copy file="${basedir}/README-new.txt" 
> tofile="../${app.name}/README.txt"/>
>         <replace dir="../${app.name}" token="${ant.project.name}"
>         	value="${app.name}" summary="true"/>
> 	</target>
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Matt
> 
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