Hi Yegappan,

> You can try posting your question to the Exuberant ctags
> user mailing list.
>
> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ctags-users

Thank you for this - I will keep it in mind. This time around, David
Fishburn in the Google newsgroup gave me the answer:

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As an alterative, do you really need to scan up to the closing >?

Just remove the closing > in the pattern.
--langdef=ant
--langmap=ant:.xml
--regex-ant=/^[ \t]*<[ \t]*project.*name="([^"]+)".*/\1/p,project/i
--regex-ant=/^[ \t]*<[ \t]*target.*name="([^"]+)".*/\1/t,target/i
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This works fine.

Rob
:)