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<h1>&lt;regex&gt;</h1>
<p> Sets project properties based on the evaluatuion of a regular expression. </p>
<p> The <code>pattern</code> attribute must contain one or more <a href="http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/cpgenref/html/cpcongroupingconstructs.asp"> named grouping constructs</a>, which represents the names of the properties to be set. These named grouping constructs can be enclosed by angle brackets (?&lt;name&gt;) or single quotes (?'name'). </p>
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<b>Note:</b> In the build file, use the XML element &amp;lt; to specify &lt;, and &amp;gt; to specify &gt;. </p>
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<b>Note:</b> The named grouping construct must not contain any punctuation and it cannot begin with a number. </p>
<h3>Parameters</h3>
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<td style="text-align: center;">string</td>
<td> Represents the input for the regular expression. </td>
<td style="text-align: center;">True</td>
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<td style="text-align: center;">string</td>
<td> Represents the regular expression to be evalued. </td>
<td style="text-align: center;">True</td>
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<td valign="top">options</td>
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<a href="http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/cpref/html/frlrfSystemTextRegularExpressionsRegexOptionsClassTopic.asp">RegexOptions</a>
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<td> A comma separated list of options to pass to the regex engine. The default is <code>None</code>. </td>
<td style="text-align: center;">False</td>
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<td valign="top">failonerror</td>
<td style="text-align: center;">bool</td>
<td> Determines if task failure stops the build, or is just reported. The default is <b>true</b>. </td>
<td style="text-align: center;">False</td>
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<td style="text-align: center;">bool</td>
<td> If <b>true</b> then the task will be executed; otherwise, skipped. The default is <b>true</b>. </td>
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<td style="text-align: center;">bool</td>
<td> Opposite of <code>if</code>. If <b>false</b> then the task will be executed; otherwise, skipped. The default is <b>false</b>. </td>
<td style="text-align: center;">False</td>
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<td style="text-align: center;">bool</td>
<td> Determines whether the task should report detailed build log messages. The default is <b>false</b>. </td>
<td style="text-align: center;">False</td>
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<h3>Examples</h3>
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<p> Find the last word in the given string and stores it in the property <code>lastword</code>. </p>
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&lt;regex pattern="(?'lastword'\w+)$" input="This is a test sentence" /&gt;
&lt;echo message="${lastword}" /&gt;
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<p> Split the full filename and extension of a filename. </p>
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&lt;regex pattern="^(?'filename'.*)\.(?'extension'\w+)$" input="d:\Temp\SomeDir\SomeDir\bla.xml" /&gt;
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<p> Split the path and the filename. (This checks for <code>/</code> or <code>\</code> as the path separator). </p>
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&lt;regex pattern="^(?'path'.*(\\|/)|(/|\\))(?'file'.*)$" input="d:\Temp\SomeDir\SomeDir\bla.xml" /&gt;
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<p> Results in path=<code>d:\Temp\SomeDir\SomeDir\</code> and file=<code>bla.xml</code>. </p>
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<h3>Requirements</h3>
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<b>Assembly:</b> NAnt.Core (0.91.4312.0)
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