On Thu, Dec 07, 2000 at 02:15:53PM +0100, Stefan Bodewig wrote:
> Raphael PIERQUIN <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > If I need to rename every file *.toto into *.tata,
> > I would intuitivly use a move task a follow :
> > <my-example>
> > <move todir="mydir">
> > <fileset dir="mydir"/>
> > <mapper type="regexp" from="(.*)\.toto" to="\1\.tata" />
> > </move>
> > </my-example>
> >
> > ant will throw a NullPointerException if the move task meets a file
> > that does not end in '.toto'
>
> Yes, this was a bug. The intended behavior is to copy nothing. The
> problem arises when the overwrite attribute has been set to true,
> which is the default for <move>.
>
> Fixed a few seconds ago, thanks.
thanks for beeing so quick.
>
> Stefan
>
> BTW, I'd use a glob mapper in a simple case like this, which is easier
> to read and more efficient at the same time.
>
Actually I met this bug with another kind of rename operation, which
requires a regex mapper :
<what-i-actually-want-to-do>
<mapper type="regexp" from="(.*)@toto@(.*)" to="\1tata\2" />
</what-i-actually-want-to-do>
You can understand I'm trying to use a kind of 'filter' feature,
on file name instead of file content. I didn't find any nicer way
to do it, is there one ?
(I need this because I want to generate files structures from
templates of file structure.)
--
Raphael
