On Thu, 13 Mar 2003, Arjen Poutsma wrote:
> I've already created such a regex task, which sets properties based on named Groups
> (<?name>).
> For example, for the regular expression ^(?<name>\w+):(?<value>\w+), you'd say:
>
> <regex pattern="^(?<name>\w+):(?<value>\w+)" input="Section1:119900"/>
> <echo message="${name}"/>
> <echo message="${value}"/>
>
> results in:
>
> [echo] Section1
> [echo] 119900
>
> Note that you have to use the XML entity < in order to specify a <.
>
> I could send it to the list, or place it somewhere else, if there is interest.
I haven't followed the discussion about substring too closely but Arjen's
<regex> task looks like a good place to start.
How about changing the 'input' attribute to 'fromstring'. This way it
leaves the door open for the task so that input could come from a file,
fileset or other sources.
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