Hee - good pt about the .* ;)

On Thu, 15 Apr 2010, David Weintraub wrote:

You need to learn about Regular Expressions and how they work.

Try regexp="dev-(.*)" instead of regexp="dev-*"

Note that I'm using "period asterisk" and not just an asterisk. An asterisk
means zero or more of the previous "character" and period means any
character". Combined, that means any string of any length (even zero in
length).

The parentheses mark the area you want to select. Since it is the first pair
of parentheses, it's "\1".

Here's a document I created to explain regular expressions: <
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/433257/Regular_Expressions.doc>

On Thu, Apr 15, 2010 at 8:18 PM, Andy2008 <[email protected]> wrote:


Here's my input

dev-abc.com:8001

I want abc.com:8001 back.  Below is my propertyregex

<propertyregex  property="url"
               input="dev-abc.com:8001"
               regexp="dev-*"
                    select="\1"
                                casesensitive="false" />

but <echo>${url}</echo> returns \1

Do you have any ideas?
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