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Posted to user@ant.apache.org by Peter Desjardins <pe...@gmail.com> on 2011/03/11 19:26:28 UTC
Regular expression to match non-breaking spaces
Hi. I'm trying to replace every non-breaking space character in a file
with a normal space character. The source file is encoded using UTF-8.
I can't get this to work using the replaceregexp task. Here's the
syntax I'm using:
<replaceregexp file="myfile.xml" match=" " replace=" "
flags="g" byline="true" encoding="utf-8" />
I've tried other ways to match non-breaking spaces (  \0240
U+00A0) but have had no success yet. I didn't alter the regular
expression libraries in my Ant installation. Is that what I need to
do? Or is there a string I can put into the match attribute that will
match UTF-8 non-breaking spaces?
Thanks for your help.
Peter Desjardins
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Re: Regular expression to match non-breaking spaces
Posted by wolfgang haefelinger <wh...@gmail.com>.
Peter,
>> <replaceregexp file="myfile.xml" match=" " replace=" "
>> flags="g" byline="true" encoding="utf-8" />
I assume that Ant's XML parse will digest your character reference. In
effect you are doing nothing more than
<replaceregexp file="myfile.xml" match=" " replace=" " flags="g"
byline="true" encoding="utf-8" />
Have you tried something like
<replaceregexp file="myfile.xml" match=" (&)#xa0;" replace=" "
flags="g" byline="true" encoding="utf-8" />
instead?
// Wolfgang
On Sat, Mar 12, 2011 at 12:48 AM, Brian Agnew <br...@oopsconsultancy.com> wrote:
> You might want to try XMLTask, which reads XML natively and handles the
> specified character encodings. It'll do regexp replacements.
>
> http://www.oopsconsultancy.com/software/xmltask
>
> On 11/03/2011 18:26, Peter Desjardins wrote:
>>
>> Hi. I'm trying to replace every non-breaking space character in a file
>> with a normal space character. The source file is encoded using UTF-8.
>> I can't get this to work using the replaceregexp task. Here's the
>> syntax I'm using:
>>
>> <replaceregexp file="myfile.xml" match=" " replace=" "
>> flags="g" byline="true" encoding="utf-8" />
>>
>> I've tried other ways to match non-breaking spaces (  \0240
>> U+00A0) but have had no success yet. I didn't alter the regular
>> expression libraries in my Ant installation. Is that what I need to
>> do? Or is there a string I can put into the match attribute that will
>> match UTF-8 non-breaking spaces?
>>
>> Thanks for your help.
>>
>> Peter Desjardins
>>
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Re: Regular expression to match non-breaking spaces
Posted by Brian Agnew <br...@oopsconsultancy.com>.
You might want to try XMLTask, which reads XML natively and handles the
specified character encodings. It'll do regexp replacements.
http://www.oopsconsultancy.com/software/xmltask
On 11/03/2011 18:26, Peter Desjardins wrote:
> Hi. I'm trying to replace every non-breaking space character in a file
> with a normal space character. The source file is encoded using UTF-8.
> I can't get this to work using the replaceregexp task. Here's the
> syntax I'm using:
>
> <replaceregexp file="myfile.xml" match=" " replace=" "
> flags="g" byline="true" encoding="utf-8" />
>
> I've tried other ways to match non-breaking spaces (  \0240
> U+00A0) but have had no success yet. I didn't alter the regular
> expression libraries in my Ant installation. Is that what I need to
> do? Or is there a string I can put into the match attribute that will
> match UTF-8 non-breaking spaces?
>
> Thanks for your help.
>
> Peter Desjardins
>
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