ANT sql task: How to run SQL and PL/SQL and notice execution failure?

Question

to execute an .sql script file from ANT it works fine using the following task:

Answer 1

Pretty late, I guess - but I hope this will help someone:

In general, I think we should perfer using sql rather than exec executable="sqlplus" for many reasons, such as: in case we change DB provider, you don't spend reaources in a new process with sql, "STOPPING" will work as opposed to sqlplus.exe etc.

Anyway, here's a suggestion on how to let both PL/SQL & SQL in same script so that it will work:

myScript.sql:

---

then give the result to:

explaination: If you have regular sql commands:

drop table x;
select blah from blue where bli=blee;

They will be transformed to:

drop table x
/
select blah from blue where bli=blee
/

which is equivlant - and the sql command with "/" delimeter can handle them.

On the other hand,

BEGIN
  blah
END;
/

will be transformed to:

BEGIN
  blas
END/
/

and using the second regex - transformed back to

BEGIN
  blas
END;
/

So everybody wins! Hurray!

Good luck.