RE: [nant-dev] Substring?

[Gerry Shaw]

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="^(?&lt;name>\w+):(?&lt;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 &lt; 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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