From user-return-71753-apmail-ant-user-archive=ant.apache.org@ant.apache.org Fri Jun 24 23:24:43 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: apmail-ant-user-archive@www.apache.org Delivered-To: apmail-ant-user-archive@www.apache.org Received: from mail.apache.org (hermes.apache.org [140.211.11.3]) by minotaur.apache.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 594B1615F for ; Fri, 24 Jun 2011 23:24:43 +0000 (UTC) Received: (qmail 50291 invoked by uid 500); 24 Jun 2011 23:24:42 -0000 Delivered-To: apmail-ant-user-archive@ant.apache.org Received: (qmail 50151 invoked by uid 500); 24 Jun 2011 23:24:41 -0000 Mailing-List: contact user-help@ant.apache.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Unsubscribe: List-Help: List-Post: List-Id: "Ant Users List" Reply-To: "Ant Users List" Delivered-To: mailing list user@ant.apache.org Received: (qmail 50143 invoked by uid 99); 24 Jun 2011 23:24:41 -0000 Received: from athena.apache.org (HELO athena.apache.org) (140.211.11.136) by apache.org (qpsmtpd/0.29) with ESMTP; Fri, 24 Jun 2011 23:24:41 +0000 X-ASF-Spam-Status: No, hits=2.5 required=5.0 tests=FORGED_YAHOO_RCVD,FREEMAIL_FROM,HTML_MESSAGE,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW,RFC_ABUSE_POST,SPF_PASS,T_TO_NO_BRKTS_FREEMAIL X-Spam-Check-By: apache.org Received-SPF: pass (athena.apache.org: domain of tennis.n.smith@gmail.com designates 209.85.212.45 as permitted sender) Received: from [209.85.212.45] (HELO mail-vw0-f45.google.com) (209.85.212.45) by apache.org (qpsmtpd/0.29) with ESMTP; Fri, 24 Jun 2011 23:24:34 +0000 Received: by vws17 with SMTP id 17so2605646vws.4 for ; Fri, 24 Jun 2011 16:24:14 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:sender:from:date :x-google-sender-auth:message-id:subject:to:content-type; bh=djuz85h9gApFkHaNeAn6tnfvct0rBVnMvUZpo82QuJo=; b=OVlGbLTI/2g/obCCB4VbdXL+Ly7viDZ+iGQhu8pOa21eRO6I5rzJOWkLmkITiGa+fQ uev8pDXfawkgPIfuUKO3sGFeBIZXR2rv8BwA8QS902Udyb2A5VM5lJ/PHHBTVnEejw1U bGx67CqTqZk1u9gnIjk2S2+c9sPOrR+8xeyKw= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:sender:from:date:x-google-sender-auth:message-id :subject:to:content-type; b=CuUEV1eIOl8KtHmIqOVBaqDLTs8JEOlMFyeNp7R5bExHUpEQj3xzQMy8CqwrrkAi18 jyAzvsgrbfxmLSC4tDWWdCMrKdfFAOAs4ttE1RctQA423aT/NHUZNI6OBLDTtoo+UBtY w0wXuIJbS0OiPa+H9vSQxeRVAVswLwZ1fa8F0= Received: by 10.52.96.231 with SMTP id dv7mr5234105vdb.109.1308957854038; Fri, 24 Jun 2011 16:24:14 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 Sender: tennis.n.smith@gmail.com Received: by 10.52.187.98 with HTTP; Fri, 24 Jun 2011 16:23:34 -0700 (PDT) From: Tennis Smith Date: Fri, 24 Jun 2011 16:23:34 -0700 X-Google-Sender-Auth: sOEj-78CWiK4jz3fxKlxfrgZztQ Message-ID: Subject: Storing RegEx In Properties Files? To: user@ant.apache.org Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary=20cf307f33f4ea7a6e04a67d7fce --20cf307f33f4ea7a6e04a67d7fce Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Hi, I'm processing a series of log files and looking at each one for certain strings of interest. Rather than keep the regex strings in the ant file itself, it would be preferable to keep them as a group of properties stored in a file. Is this possible? Has anyone tried keeping their regex values in a properties file? -- Tks, -Tennis --20cf307f33f4ea7a6e04a67d7fce--