A lot of the examples in http://jakarta.apache.org/ant/manual/CoreTypes/mapper.html specify how to grab components of a filename and move them around, add things, etc.
For example, <mapper type="regexp" from="^(.*)\.java$$" to="\1.java.bak"/> foo/bar/B.java -> foo/bar/bar-B.java <mapper type="regexp" from="^(.*)/([^/]+)/([^/]*)$$" to="\1/\2/\2-\3"/> foo/bar/B.java -> foo/bar/B.java.bak <mapper type="regexp" from="^(.*)\.(.*)$$" to="\2.\1"/> foo/bar/B.java -> java.foo/bar/B ...but what I want to do is a little different. I want to do a search/replace of a given character... in this case, replace directory separators with dot files (and while I'm at it, strip an extension). this would be easy if I knew how deep the subdirectory tree would always be, but I don't... foo/A.txt -> foo.A foo/bar/B.txt -> foo.bar.B foo/bar/baz/C.txt -> foo.bar.baz.C I don't quite see how the current from/to attributes for mapper will get me there, since it seems to need to know up front what you're matching & how many of them there are, in order to do the substitutions. For example, <mapper type="regexp" from="^(.*)/(.*)/(.*)\.txt$$" to="\1.\2.\3"/> would work for "foo/bar/B.txt" but not for "foo/A.txt" or "foo/bar/baz/C.txt" Is there something I'm missing for how to use mapper? Or is the capability I'm looking for simply not present? Thanks, Tim -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
