Is there a way to exclude certain files in a fileset using containsregexp?

Question

Is there a way in ant to exclude certain files from a fileset using a regular expression?

containsregexp can be used to include files, but how do I exclude files matching a regex?

score 3 · Accepted Answer · answered Dec 10 '12 at 17:18

You're probably looking for the <not> selector container. The Ant docs example

<fileset dir="." includes="*.txt">
    <containsregexp expression="[4-6]\.[0-9]"/>
</fileset>

could be negated thus:

<fileset dir="." includes="*.txt">
    <not>
        <containsregexp expression="[4-6]\.[0-9]"/>
    </not>
</fileset>

score 0 · Answer 2 · edited May 23 '17 at 11:58

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In general you can use ! to prefix a regex pattern to invert the matching.

Here are some related discussion on inverted regex matching:

edited May 23 '17 at 11:58

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answered Dec 10 '12 at 16:42

sampson-chen

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