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           Summary: SubSet Filter
           Product: Ant
           Version: 1.6.5
          Platform: All
        OS/Version: All
            Status: NEW
          Severity: enhancement
          Priority: P2
         Component: Core tasks
        AssignedTo: devant.apache.org
        ReportedBy: donovan.dillonshaw.ca


When processing text files, using the copy, move, concat
(etc) has the current 
ability to use filter readers. The current set of filter
readers provides a 
very useful set of functionality. The enhancement I would
like would be a 
filter that provide the following functionality.

The SubSet Filter is a filter that can be used within a
filterchain to extract 
data from a text file. It allows you to designate 2 reg exp
patterns. The 
first pattern is what the filter uses to start the
extraction and the second 
is the pattern is uses to stop the extraction.

Rules:
1) If the beginning filter is not specified, starts at
beginning

2) If the beginning filter is never found, no lines are
returned
 
3) If the end filter is never found or not specified, then
all lines till the 
end are returned
 
4) If the skipstart attribute is set, it will skip N number
of matches before 
it starts
 
5) If the skipend attribute is set, it will skip N number of
matches before it 
ends

After the lines are determined, each line can then be
limited by column index. 
The truncating of a line will keep the line-ending
character.

Rules:
 
1) If columnstart index is specified, the entire line is
returned starting 
from that 0-based index
 
2) If columnstart is greater than a the line length, nothing
is returned
 
3) If columnend is specified, only text up to that index is
returned.
 
4) If columnend is greater than line length, then everything
up to line length 
is returned.

Now obviously I have already tried to do this and think it
is a useful filter 
that would help complete the existing set of great filters.
I have had a 
recent set of tasks and chose ant to help do text file
processing and found 
that this was very useful. I realize you already have a
great pool of talent 
but would look forward to contributing the code I do have.
It is fully unit 
tested using the anttest util. 

Anyways, hopefully I will see it in a future release.

Thanks,
Donovan

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