I would like to get the filename of the first file in a directory and then get a
particular part of the filename. The files all basically follow this format:
20070921_0001.xml. Currently I'm using a combination of windows command line and
ant. It looks like the following
in a bat file (I know it could be done using the exec task in ANT but haven't
got off my ass to change it)
dir drop /b > prefix.txt
in an ANT task
<replaceregexp match="\s+" replace="" file="../prefix.txt" flags="g"
byline="false" encoding="utf-8" />
<!-- get the first 8 chars from the string in prefix.txt -->
<replaceregexp match="^(\w{8})([a-zA-Z0-9\_\-\.\~])*" replace="\1"
file="../prefix.txt" flags="g" byline="false" encoding="utf-8" />
<!-- set the value of l_Docset with the first line from prefix.txt -->
<loadfile property="l_Docset" srcFile="../prefix.txt">
<filterchain>
<headfilter lines="1"/>
</filterchain>
</loadfile>
There has to be a much easier and cleaner way of doing this.
Any help or ideas will be greatly appreciated.
Marijan (Mario) Madunic
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