[Scons-users] Builder to perform string substitution on source contents to produce a target file?

[John Pye]

The 'SubstInFile' tool is what you need, I think. We use that in our
project, http://ascend4.org/.

Cheers
JP

On Sun, Jun 17, 2012, at 08:50 PM, M Busche wrote:

> QUESTION:

> 

> Is there was a standard builder for doing string-replacement processing

> between input and output files?

> 

> BACKGROUND:

> 

> I have written a builder that reads in a source file, performs a series

> global string substitutions on the file just read (as defined by a

> dictionary defined in the environment), and writes the result to the

> specified target file.  I use this during software packaging to replace

> the string pattern "__VERSION__" in each of my source files with the

> actual software version (which I pull out of my bzr source code control

> system).  I also use it to inject projectName, version, and output

> directory settings into a doxygen configuration file (which is

> subsequently used to produce software docs).  This seems useful enough

> that I thought it might already exist.

> 

> Thanks much!

> Matt

> 

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