Ant 1.7.0 introduced resource collections including <tokens> and <string>:
<tokens id="tokens"> <string value="At revision 100" /> <stringtokenizer /> </tokens> With svn trunk/Ant 1.7.1 (beta will probably be released soon), you can wrap tokens with <last>: <last> <resources refid="tokens" /> </last> HTH, Matt --- Francis Brennan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > There is a propertyregex task in ant-contrib that > you can use to extract > part of a property's value to a new property. > > -----Original Message----- > From: mindspin311 [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Sent: Monday, March 31, 2008 2:33 PM > To: user@ant.apache.org > Subject: Re: Need to find current directory (not > entire path) > > > Wow, completely overlooked basename, but that only > really solves this > specific problem. I was really hoping to find out if > there was a way to > parse a string or property. Let's say I'm using svn > update and it > returns 'At revision 100'. I put that string into a > property. > > Now, how do I extract just the 100? > > Is there any built in functionality that will solve > this, or do I have > to make my own task to handle something like this? > > > > > > mindspin311 wrote: > > > > If I have the following path: /blah/foo/trunk/ > > > > I want to be able to assign just "trunk" to a > property, similar to > > dirname: > > > > <dirname property="pdir" file="build.xml" /> > > > > This returns the whole path. I just want it to > return the last element > > > of a directory. > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > View this message in context: > http://www.nabble.com/Need-to-find-current-directory-%28not-entire-path% > 29-tp16399048p16399100.html > Sent from the Ant - Users mailing list archive at > Nabble.com. > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > ____________________________________________________________________________________ You rock. That's why Blockbuster's offering you one month of Blockbuster Total Access, No Cost. http://tc.deals.yahoo.com/tc/blockbuster/text5.com --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
