I found the documentation on mapper, this handled it for me.
David Jordan mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Object Identity, Inc. www.objectidentity.com > -----Original Message----- > From: David Jordan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Friday, November 30, 2001 7:36 PM > To: 'Ant Users List' > Subject: renaming of files > > > > I have a situation where I have a bunch of "configuration" files > that exist in 3 forms. One of these 3 forms needs to be used during > a build. There are very strict rules about the file name and suffix. > Assume the suffix is .xml and the file name is "file". > So at a certain step in the build process I need a file > named file.xml that should be in a certain directory. > But in the source directory, I need three different variations > of this file.xml. > I was thinking I would have 3 files named > file.xml.n > file.xml.d > file.xml.a > (The n,d, and a denote the type of file.) > My question is how in Ant can I have a build step that would > basically strip off one of the .n, .d, .a from the rest of the > file name, placing the resulting file.xml in either the same > or different directory? I'd have a build step that would specifically > pick one of these three files (based on the .n, .d, .a) and > remove the additional suffix. > > There are MANY directories that will have this same situation, > so I'd like it to be expressed fairly generically. > I have never written my own Ant task and don't have time to do that > now, but someday I do hope to learn how to implement my own task, > but now I don't have the luxury of the time. > > Another question, something that will be part of the same build > process is that these files will exist in a particular directory > structure, where the root is named "source". But I will need to > move these files to a mirror copy directory structure under a > different root, say it is named "dest". Can this be done generically > without requiring the full paths under both "source" and "dest". > Further, it would be really cool if I could use the wildcarding in > ant on file sets that would do this for all the MANY directories > automatically, so I don't have to explicitly create the above > file naming step for each individual directory. > > Recommendations would be really appreciated! > > David Jordan > mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Object Identity, Inc. > www.objectidentity.com > > -- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: > <mailto:ant-user-> [EMAIL PROTECTED]> > For > additional commands, > e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
