ant-regexp

[david]

I would like to use the following regexp:
<replaceregexp flags="g" match="\n\[\s&&[^\n]]+" replace="\\\\n">
<fileset dir="/home/public/dbs/regexp"
includes="applicationLogMessages.properties"/>
</replaceregexp>

unfortunately, eclipse marks this as an error as soon as i type a "&".

my goal is to replace all NEWLINEs where the new line starts with a
WHITESPACE with a \n, but keep it on the same line.
if the next line is empty(simply a NEWLINE) i want to do nothing!

how can i achieve this (without using &)?

thankful for all hints.
david

 

[Michael Borgwardt]

I would like to use the following regexp:
<replaceregexp flags="g" match="\n\[\s&&[^\n]]+" replace="\\\\n">
<fileset dir="/home/public/dbs/regexp"
includes="applicationLogMessages.properties"/>
</replaceregexp>

unfortunately, eclipse marks this as an error as soon as i type a "&".

Ant scripts are XML, and & must be escaped with an entity &amp; in XML.