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RE: Trim leading spaces line by line

by Harnack Frank-2 :: Rate this Message:

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Hello Francis,

first I thought, you were right, but it works with "\s*".

"\s+" would not.

But "^\s+" or "^\s*" works too.

Regards

Frank

-----Original Message-----
From: Francis Galiegue [mailto:fge@...]
Sent: Tuesday, March 10, 2009 9:19 AM
To: Ant Users List
Subject: Re: Trim leading spaces line by line

Le mardi 10 mars 2009, Harnack Frank a écrit :
> Hello Felix,
>
> try this:
>
> <replaceregexp
> file="xyz.txt"
> match="\s*"

Err... "^\s*" would be better. If there's no leading space, the first series of spaces will be replaced by nothing instead.


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