String Macros

This section covers the Enterprise Extensions SMP/E String Macros which extend the EWM Ant toolkit by offering a build various features that manipulate strings.

The String Macros are generalized utilities used by all of the Enterprise Extensions SMP/E Ant Scripts. The repository for the String Macros is the $string.xml file, which is imported in the top-level section of an Ant script using the following code snippet:

<!-- Load build extensions -->
<xt:loadBuildExtensions/>
<xt:getJarLocation property="jarPath"/>

<!-- Load common resources -->
<import>
    <javaresource name="scripts/smpe/imports/$string.xml">
        <classpath location="${jarPath}"/>
    </javaresource>
</import>

    

• ReplaceRegex
  The ReplaceRegex macro searches the value of the specified property using the specified regular expression and replaces matches with the replacement value specified.
• ReplaceString
  The ReplaceString macro searches the value of the specified property for the specified search string and replaces matches with the replacement value specified.
• TokenCount
  The TokenCount macro returns the number of tokens in the specified string.
• ToLowerCase
  The ToLowerCase macro converts the value of the named property to lower case.
• ToUpperCase
  The ToUpperCase macro converts the value of the named property to upper case.
• Trim
  The Trim macro trims trailing blanks from the value of the named property.