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Elliotte Rusty Harold updated MSHARED-995:
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Summary: Documents of patterns used for filtering (was: documentation)
> Documents of patterns used for filtering
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> Key: MSHARED-995
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MSHARED-995
> Project: Maven Shared Components
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Components: maven-filtering
> Reporter: Delany
> Priority: Major
>
> There's basically no documentation on the pattern matching used to filter
> resources. The filter component documentation reads like dev documentation,
> and I'm left to trail-and-error to figure it out. Adding to the confusion is
> that Maven plugins can implement their own pattern matching/strain of regex.
> I think the assembly plugin does its own thing. Its frustrating enough when
> regex doesn't match so can I at least be clear on the algorithm.
> For example, I want to set a more specific filter to copy resources. The
> filename may have anywhere between 1 and 5 characters followed by an
> extension.
> I tried five question marks, but that only matches 5 characters not 4.
>
> {code:java}
> <include>?????.changelog</include>
> {code}
> There's no support for something like
>
> {code:java}
> <include>?{1,5}.changelog</include>
> {code}
>
> I see double asterisk in some patterns, suggesting globbing. Can this be
> stated? Perhaps at one point it was obvious - it may seem too simple to
> bother with. But the Internet is full of alternatives today and a simple
> write-up will save a lot of guess-work for newbies and those of us with bad
> memory.
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