I'm using the spool command in sqlplus to retrieve some information and put it into a file. Than I want to parse that file for only valid lines not all the other stuff sqlplus stuffs in there. The big problem is the new lines that are littered everywhere and I can't seem to get rid of. The regex I'm using through ant is this ...
There must be something I'm missing ... any ideas?
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The match starts with a '^' which matches the beginning of a line. So it would appear that this regex would do a decent job of removing blank lines.
When you say "The big problem is the new lines that are littered everywhere and I can't seem to get rid of." what exactly are you trying to get rid of? The way I read that sentence is that you want to get rid of the new line character (0x0a), or character pair on Windows (0x0d0a). Is that what you mean? Perhaps a simple example would help us understand exactly what you want - in other words, show some file contents before and after processing.
<blankline>
<blankline>
hello world
<blankline>
<blankline>
for whatever reason ant's regex tasks will not remove those blank lines ... The program that produces this file to parse is sqlplus through the spool command ... that should not matter but just in case it does.
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