On Jun 30, 2010, at 6:24 AM, Bailey, Darragh wrote:
>
>
> Is it possible to take the contents of a property and modify each item within
> the property to append a wildcard in order to turn them into patterns that
> can be used within <fileset dir="..." includes="${patternproperty}" /> ?
>
> property1 = string1,string2,string3,string4
>
> And patternproperty is constructed based on property1 to result in:
> patternproperty = string1*,string2*,string3*,string4*
>
>
> All of the filters appear to be line based, although replaceregex in the
> tokenfilter might work for me if I can construct the appropriate regular
> expression.
>
> Outside of that all I can think of is use of exec or apply on to call some
> shell script to do the manipulation and set an output property.
>
> It seems that manipulation of properties is not something that's supported by
> Ant and I'll have to go to antcontrib for that or am I missing any other
> options?
>
You're in luck. I would recommend using antcontrib:for to iterate over a
<tokens> resourcecollection built from your property + the new <augment> task.
See http://markmail.org/thread/4qskrvmiyk6qpjdg for a discussion of a similar
strategy for another problem.
HTH,
Matt
>
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