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Date: Thu, 12 Sep 2002 12:39:16 -0700 (PDT)
From: Matt Benson <gudnabrsam@yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: Excluding lines from files?
To: Ant Users List <ant-user@jakarta.apache.org>
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What kinds of files are they?  If, for example, they
were Java files or some other kind of file with the
concept of a comment, you might be able to use the
replaceregexp task and comment out whole lines
containing the given string.

-Matt

--- Jakub.Valenta@Deio.net wrote:
> Hi all,
> I would like to ask if it is possible to convince
> Ant to exclude some 
> lines from files (during copying or so).
> I was looking at several FilterReaders, but I
> haven't found any solution.
> 
> I need to be able to exclude all lines which contain
> given string. I was 
> bit trying the regexp filter, but I didn;t manage to
> do it.
> 
> any help appreciated
> 
> br,
> 
> Jakub


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