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[This is preliminary documentation and subject to change.]
Searches files for a regular-expression and produces an XML report of the matches.
| Attribute | Type | Description | Required |
|---|---|---|---|
| output | file | Specifies the name of the output file. | True |
| pattern | string | Specifies the regular-expression to search for. | True |
| failonerror | bool | Determines if task failure stops the build, or is just reported. The default is true. | False |
| if | bool | If true then the task will be executed; otherwise, skipped. The default is true. | False |
| unless | bool | Opposite of if. If false then the task will be executed; otherwise, skipped. The default is false. |
False |
| verbose | bool | Determines whether the task should report detailed build log messages. The default is false. | False |
Extract all TODO:, UNDONE: or HACK:- comment-tags from C# source files and write them to a file out.xml. (A xslt-stylesheet could then transform it to a nice html-page for your project-homepage, but that is beyond the scope of this example.)
Path, File and LineNumber are automatically generated elements.
<grep output="out.xml" pattern="// (?'Type'TODO|UNDONE|HACK): (\[(?'Author'\w*),(?'Date'.*)\])? (?'Text'[^\n\r]*)">
<fileset>
<include name="*.cs" />
</fileset>
</grep>
The resulting XML file for a comment-tag 'TODO: [md, 14-02-2004] comment this method' will look like
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>
<Matches>
<Match>
<Type>TODO</Type>
<Text>comment this method</Text>
<Path>C:\MyProjects\MyPath</Path>
<File>MyFile.cs</Filename>
<LineNumber>146</LineNumber>
<Author>md</Author>
<Date>14-02-2004</Date>
</Match>
...
</Matches>