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<h2><a name="loadproperties">LoadProperties</a></h2>
<h3>Description</h3>
<p>
Load a file's contents as Ant properties.  This is equivalent
to <code>&lt;property file|resource=&quot;...&quot;/&gt;</code> except that it
supports nested <code>&lt;filterchain&gt;</code> elements.
Also if the file is missing, the build is halted with an error, rather
than a warning being printed.
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<p>If you want to simulate <a href="property.html">property</a>'s
prefix attribute, please use <a
href="../CoreTypes/filterchain.html#prefixlines">prefixlines</a>
filter.</p>

<h3>Parameters</h3>
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    <td valign="top"><b>Attribute</b></td>
    <td valign="top"><b>Description</b></td>
    <td align="center" valign="top"><b>Required</b></td>
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    <td valign="top">srcFile</td>
    <td valign="top">source file</td>
    <td valign="top" rowspan="2" align="center">One of these</td>
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    <td valign="top">resource</td>
    <td valign="top">the resource name of the property file</td>
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    <td valign="top">encoding</td>
    <td valign="top">encoding to use when loading the file</td>
    <td align="center" valign="top">No</td>
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    <td valign="top">classpath</td>
    <td valign="top">the classpath to use when looking up a resource.</td>
    <td align="center" valign="top">No</td>
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    <td valign="top">classpathref</td>
    <td valign="top">the classpath to use when looking up a resource,
      given as <a href="../using.html#references">reference</a>
      to a <code>&lt;path&gt;</code> defined elsewhere..</td>
    <td align="center" valign="top">No</td>
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The LoadProperties task supports nested <a href="../CoreTypes/filterchain.html">
FilterChain</a>s, as well as a nested <code>&lt;classpath&gt;</code>
element for use with the <i>resource</i> attribute.

<h3>Examples</h3>
<pre>    &lt;loadproperties srcFile="file.properties"/&gt;
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Load contents of file.properties as Ant properties.

<pre>    &lt;loadproperties srcFile="file.properties"&gt;
      &lt;filterchain&gt;
        &lt;<a href="../CoreTypes/filterchain.html#linecontains">linecontains</a>&gt;
          &lt;contains value=&quot;import.&quot;/&gt;
        &lt;/linecontains&gt;
      &lt;/filterchain&gt;
    &lt;/loadproperties&gt;
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Read the lines that contain the string &quot;import.&quot;
from the file &quot;file.properties&quot; and load them as
Ant properties.
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