Hello,
Cheers for that - however that's not gonna work for me as I
need to spit the data out into a text file which is used by another
application to build a cab file for WindowsCE (different from a normal
cab file). This text file requires backslashes, forward slashes won't
work.
I'm completly utterly stumped here - I need to have backslashes in
a file and I cannot for the life of me work out what to do here!
Cheers,
Neil
On 8/26/05, Rebhan, Gilbert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Neil Benn [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Thursday, August 25, 2005 9:55 PM
> To: Ant Users List
> Subject: Re: ReplaceRegExp with windows filenames
>
> /*
> [...]
>
> So, it seems if I use ReplaceRegEx on the file or load the file
> into a property and if I use one or two backslashes in the, I get out
> something like this (either from an echo or in the file:
>
> [echo] 1 = ,"DropPaqEtc",,"C:Documents and SettingsNeil BennMy
> Documentssvn_timtrunkDropPaq\installer\CE" ; The etc directory which
> contains all image and the jar file
>
> [...]
>
> */
>
> Sorry, didn't get your problem right, but maybe a point in
> the right direction :
>
> had a similar problem here with pathseparator ' \ ' on Windows =
>
> in one antscript i grab one filename/path out of a directory with
> antcontrib/timestampselector and echo that property to a file :
>
> <path id="path.order">
> <fileset dir="${...}">
> <include name="*.txt" />
> </fileset>
> </path>
> <timestampselector property="order.candidat"
> pathref="path.order"
> count="1"
> age="eldest">
> </timestampselector>
>
> <echo
> file="C:/deployserver/path/to/mytxtfile/foobar.txt">${order.candidat}</e
> cho>
>
> in another script i load the property ${order.candidat} again, but as
> the path
> in that property on windows is something like :
>
> C:\deployserver\path\to\mytxtfile\foobar.txt
>
> the property gets C:deployserverpathtomytxtfilefoobar.txt when loaded
> cause the ' \ ' is not masked (has to be ' \\ ' in java)
>
> so i have to load it like that :
>
> <loadfile property="auftragtxt"
> srcfile="C:/deployserver/path/to/mytxtfile/foobar.txt">
> <filterchain>
> <replacestring from="\" to="/" />
> </filterchain>
> </loadfile>
>
> and it get's loaded with ' / ' as pathseparator -> OK
>
> btw, i always use ' / ' instead of ' \ ' even on windows (ant handles
> that for you),
> because i noticed several strange things when using ' \ ' on windows.
>
> i even created a patch for the ant faq.xml and the ant manual /
> property.html
> some time ago, but somehow no one noticed and it didn't get in.
>
> http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=ant-user&m=110769112325881&w=2
>
> [ <faq id="win-backslashes"> ]
>
> Regards, Gilbert
>
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