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RE: regular expression help+tokens instead of words

thanks Ahmed it works for the sample string i provided.
My question is how can you avoid special characters e.g instead of Foo Bar blabla , you have:
input string=foo/bar.ext  foo/some1.ext.
The goal is to match the tokens separated by blank space and not words.

Thanks for any help!


Hind Lwahhabi.




-----Original Message-----
From: Basel Ahmed [mailto:Basel.Ahmed@fds.com]
Sent: Tue 8/2/2005 3:42 PM
To: Ant Users List
Cc: user@ant.apache.org
Subject: RE: regular expression help
 
Here's a code snippet that does what you'd like to do with
<propertyregexp>.

<propertyregex property="regexp.name"
              input="Foo Bar Blah Blah"
              regexp="([A-Za-z]+)"
              replace="myPrefix\1"
              global="true"
              casesensitive="false" />


The result is:
     [echo]  Regular expression is: myPrefixFoo myPrefixFoo myPrefixFoo
myPrefixFoo

Basel Ahmed
Federated Systems Group
Site Build & Launch (Duluth)
basel.ahmed@fds.com
678-474-3203


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Do you mean:
<propertyregexp property="testprefix"  regexp="\w*" replace="myPrefix"/>
But then all the words would be replaced by the prefix , no?
Forgive me i ama beginner in regular expressions:)


Hind Lwahhabi.
Accenture Belgium - Financial Services & Insurance
Koningstraat 145 Rue Royale, B-1000 Brussels, Belgium
mobile: +32 499567544
phone: + 32 2 226 75 44
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-----Original Message-----
From: James Fuller [mailto:jim.fuller@ruminate.co.uk]
Sent: Tue 8/2/2005 3:11 PM
To: Ant Users List
Subject: Re: regular expression help

hind.lwahhabi@accenture.com wrote:

>Hello guys;
>I would like some help for the following.
>Using <propertyregexp> how would you perform the following:
>
>input string="Foo Bar Jeff Blabla"
>replacing prefix="myPrefix"
>result string="myPrefixFoo myPrefixBar myPrefixJeff myPrefixBlabla"
>
>
 \w* should match every word or u could use the ^ method.


I normally use something like this to match words
/\b([A-Za-z]+)\b


gl, Jim Fuller




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Re: regular expression help+tokens instead of words

Posted by Patrick Martin <an...@gmail.com>.
Hi,

You could try to replace the blank character by ' myPrefix' (not the
blank before myPrefix).

 <propertyregex property="regexp.name"
               input="Foo Bar Blah Blah"
               regexp=" "
               replace=" myPrefix"
               global="true"
               casesensitive="false" />

Patrick Martin

On 8/2/05, hind.lwahhabi@accenture.com <hi...@accenture.com> wrote:
> thanks Ahmed it works for the sample string i provided.
> My question is how can you avoid special characters e.g instead of Foo Bar blabla , you have:
> input string=foo/bar.ext  foo/some1.ext.
> The goal is to match the tokens separated by blank space and not words.
> 
> Thanks for any help!
> 
> 
> Hind Lwahhabi.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Basel Ahmed [mailto:Basel.Ahmed@fds.com]
> Sent: Tue 8/2/2005 3:42 PM
> To: Ant Users List
> Cc: user@ant.apache.org
> Subject: RE: regular expression help
> 
> Here's a code snippet that does what you'd like to do with
> <propertyregexp>.
> 
> <propertyregex property="regexp.name"
>               input="Foo Bar Blah Blah"
>               regexp="([A-Za-z]+)"
>               replace="myPrefix\1"
>               global="true"
>               casesensitive="false" />
> 
> 
> The result is:
>      [echo]  Regular expression is: myPrefixFoo myPrefixFoo myPrefixFoo
> myPrefixFoo
> 
> Basel Ahmed
> Federated Systems Group
> Site Build & Launch (Duluth)
> basel.ahmed@fds.com
> 678-474-3203
> 
> 
> "Time is the coin of your life. It is the only coin you have and only you
> can determine how it will be spent. Be careful, lest you let others spend
> it for you." --Rod McKuen
> 
> 
> "Live as if your were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live
> forever. " -- Mahatma Gandhi
> 
> 
> "Don't argue for other people's weaknesses. Don't argue for your own. When
> you make a mistake, admit it, correct it, and learn from it--immediately."
> -- Stephen Covey
> 
> 
> 
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> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Do you mean:
> <propertyregexp property="testprefix"  regexp="\w*" replace="myPrefix"/>
> But then all the words would be replaced by the prefix , no?
> Forgive me i ama beginner in regular expressions:)
> 
> 
> Hind Lwahhabi.
> Accenture Belgium - Financial Services & Insurance
> Koningstraat 145 Rue Royale, B-1000 Brussels, Belgium
> mobile: +32 499567544
> phone: + 32 2 226 75 44
> E-mail:hind.lwahhabi@accenture.com
> 
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: James Fuller [mailto:jim.fuller@ruminate.co.uk]
> Sent: Tue 8/2/2005 3:11 PM
> To: Ant Users List
> Subject: Re: regular expression help
> 
> hind.lwahhabi@accenture.com wrote:
> 
> >Hello guys;
> >I would like some help for the following.
> >Using <propertyregexp> how would you perform the following:
> >
> >input string="Foo Bar Jeff Blabla"
> >replacing prefix="myPrefix"
> >result string="myPrefixFoo myPrefixBar myPrefixJeff myPrefixBlabla"
> >
> >
>  \w* should match every word or u could use the ^ method.
> 
> 
> I normally use something like this to match words
> /\b([A-Za-z]+)\b
> 
> 
> gl, Jim Fuller
> 
> 
> 
> 
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