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Posted to user@ant.apache.org by peter reilly <pe...@corvil.com> on 2003/04/02 08:49:10 UTC
Re: Substituting in CRLF in ReplaceRegExp
The \n does not get interpreted by xml. You
need to use a property like this:
<substitution expression="foo ${line.separator} bar"/>
Peter.
On Wednesday 02 April 2003 08:24, William Ferguson wrote:
> I'm having trouble insrting CRLF via ReplaceRegExp.
> It just seems to entirely ignore the "\n" in the substituion expression.
> I've tried prefixing with multiple back slashes but to no avail.
> Using Ant 1.5, JDK 1.4.1 and the ORO mapper.
>
> <replaceregexp flags="s">
> <regexp pattern="somepatternThatMatches"/>
> <substitution expression="foo \n bar"/>
> <fileset dir="${test.dir}">
> <include name="**/*.java"/>
> </fileset>
> </replaceregexp>
>
> Any ideas?
>
>
> William Ferguson
>
>
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RE: Substituting in CRLF in ReplaceRegExp
Posted by William Ferguson <wi...@versata.com.au>.
Many thanks Peter.
-----Original Message-----
From: peter reilly [mailto:peter.reilly@corvil.com]
Sent: Wednesday, April 02, 2003 4:49 PM
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Subject: Re: Substituting in CRLF in ReplaceRegExp
The \n does not get interpreted by xml. You
need to use a property like this:
<substitution expression="foo ${line.separator} bar"/>
Peter.
On Wednesday 02 April 2003 08:24, William Ferguson wrote:
> I'm having trouble insrting CRLF via ReplaceRegExp.
> It just seems to entirely ignore the "\n" in the substituion expression.
> I've tried prefixing with multiple back slashes but to no avail.
> Using Ant 1.5, JDK 1.4.1 and the ORO mapper.
>
> <replaceregexp flags="s">
> <regexp pattern="somepatternThatMatches"/>
> <substitution expression="foo \n bar"/>
> <fileset dir="${test.dir}">
> <include name="**/*.java"/>
> </fileset>
> </replaceregexp>
>
> Any ideas?
>
>
> William Ferguson
>
>
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