Hi Steve, > Can someone fix it?
I was going to respond with "You can!" But it seems it was already fixed almost a year ago: https://github.com/mojohaus/build-helper-maven-plugin/commit/cdaa047253fdcb64f94e81a6e8575191b5919ab0 The site just hasn't been regenerated and uploaded, I guess? -Curtis On Mon, Nov 16, 2015 at 5:41 PM, Steve Cohen <[email protected]> wrote: > Documentation on the regex-property goal of build-helper-maven-plugin at > http://www.mojohaus.org/build-helper-maven-plugin/usage.html has an > error. This error has persisted for some time and has proliferated around > the Internet, for example in several Stack Overflow posts. > > The error is this: > > In the section marked "Set a property by applying a regex replacement to a > value", > under <configuration>, we see the <value> element exampled as > > <value>$\{project.version}</value> > > This is incorrect. The goal will fail if the backslash is included and > succeed if it is omitted. From my basic understanding of regex and of > Maven, it seemed wrong and I have verified that it is. > > It's probably a typo, one that has confused some people, for example, on > Stack Overflow: > > > http://stackoverflow.com/questions/17516313/possible-bug-when-parsing-properties-with-goal-regex-property-of-build-helper > > Can someone fix it? > > Steve Cohen >
