one suggestion is to make add by the generator tool a single line at the begining of each file. For example : @PACKAGE_INFORMATION@
and make this replace by the right information by the ant Replace task or use a Filter... Of course, this implies modifying your generator tool a bit... Bruno > -----Message d'origine----- > De : Stephen Rozum [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Envoyé : dimanche 8 décembre 2002 21:46 > À : [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Objet : How does one pre-append lines > > > Hello all, > > I have come across the following problem and I am looking for a > nice solution to address it. > > What I need to to is command similiar to <echo> with a option to > pre-append the echo string to the beginning of the file. > > Note: I need this tool since some of our Java code is > automatically generated and the tool that generates the code has > no concepts of packages. What I need to do is add a package > statement to the beginning of the file. Unfortunately, changing > the routine that generates the code is not an option. > > I see three possible solutions: > > 1) Write an external tool class that would be called by Ant to > prepend the string. > > 2) Modify Ant with a new option for prepending the data. > Unfortunately, it would be a local modification would need to be > re-implemented each time we update Ant with the latest revision. > > 3) Use existing Ant command to accomplish this task. > > I would like to use option 3, but being relatively new to the Ant > environment, I am unsure of the best way of doing this. Note: > All of the files to be modified will be contained in thier own directory. > > One possible algorithm that I thought of was to: > 1) Copy all of the *.java files to another temporary directory > 2) For each *.java in the original directory replace the contents > with the package information. > 3) For each of the files in the temporary directory, concatenate > it with its original's file name in the original directory. > > Thanks ahead of time for any help. > > > Regards, > > > Stephen > > > > > -- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[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]>
