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+<title>Regexp Type</title>
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+
+<body>
+
+<h2><a name="regexp">Regexp</a></h2>
+<p>
+Regexp represents a regular expression.
+<h3>Parameters</h3>
+<table border="1" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0">
+ <tr>
+ <td valign="top"><b>Attribute</b></td>
+ <td valign="top"><b>Description</b></td>
+ <td align="center" valign="top"><b>Required</b></td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td valign="top">pattern</td>
+ <td valign="top">regular expression pattern</td>
+ <td valign="top" align="center">Yes</td>
+ </tr>
+</table>
+
+<h3>Examples</h3>
+<blockquote><pre>
+ &lt;regexp id="myregexp" pattern="alpha(.+)beta"/&gt;<br>
+</pre></blockquote>
+<p>
+Defines a regular expression for later use with id myregexp.
+</p>
+<blockquote><pre>
+ &lt;regexp refid="myregexp"/&gt;<br>
+</pre></blockquote>
+<p>
+Use the regular expression with id myregexp.
+</p>
+<h3><a name="implementation">Choice of regular expression implementation</a></h3>
+<p>
+Apache Ant comes with
+wrappers for
+<a href="http://docs.oracle.com/javase/7/docs/api/java/util/regex/package-summary.html" target="_top">the java.util.regex package</a>,
+<a href="http://attic.apache.org/projects/jakarta-regexp.html" target="_top">jakarta-regexp</a>
+and <a href="http://attic.apache.org/projects/jakarta-oro.html" target="_top">jakarta-ORO</a>,
+See <a href="../install.html#librarydependencies">installation dependencies</a>
+ concerning the supporting libraries.</p>
+<p>
+The property <code>ant.regexp.regexpimpl</code> governs which regular expression implementation will be chosen.
+Possible values for this property are :
+<ul>
+<li>
+org.apache.tools.ant.util.regexp.Jdk14RegexpRegexp
+</li>
+<li>
+org.apache.tools.ant.util.regexp.JakartaOroRegexp
+</li>
+<li>
+org.apache.tools.ant.util.regexp.JakartaRegexpRegexp
+</li>
+</ul>
+It can also be another implementation of the interface <code>org.apache.tools.ant.util.regexp.Regexp</code>.
+If <code>ant.regexp.regexpimpl</code> is not defined, Ant uses Jdk14Regexp as this is always available.</p>
+<p>
+There are cross-platform issues for matches related to line terminator.
+For example if you use $ to anchor your regular expression on the end of a line
+the results might be very different depending on both your platform and the regular
+expression library you use. It is 'highly recommended' that you test your pattern on
+both Unix and Windows platforms before you rely on it.
+<ul>
+ <li>Jakarta Oro defines a line terminator as '\n' and is consistent with Perl.</li>
+ <li>Jakarta RegExp uses a system-dependent line terminator.</li>
+ <li>JDK 1.4 uses '\n', '\r\n', '\u0085', '\u2028', '\u2029' as a default
+ but is configured in the wrapper to use only '\n' (UNIX_LINE)</li>
+</ul>
+<em>We used to recommend that you use Jakarta ORO but since its
+ development has been retired Java's built-in regex package is likely
+ the best choice going forward.</em>
+</p>
+<h3>Usage</h3>
+The following tasks and types use the Regexp type :
+<ul>
+<li><a href="../Tasks/replaceregexp.html">ReplaceRegExp task</a></li>
+<li><a href="filterchain.html#linecontainsregexp">LineContainsRegexp filter</a></li>
+</ul>
+<p>
+These string filters also use the mechanism of regexp to choose a regular expression implementation :
+</p>
+<ul>
+<li><a href="filterchain.html#containsregex">ContainsRegex string filter</a></li>
+<li><a href="filterchain.html#replaceregex">ReplaceRegex string filter</a></li>
+<li><a href="selectors.html#filenameselect">filename selector</a></li>
+<li><a href="resources.html#rsel.name">name resource selector</a></li>
+<li><a href="selectors.html#regexpselect">containsregexp selector</a></li>
+</ul>
+
+</body>
+</html>