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<h2><a name="replace">Replace</a></h2>
<h3>Description</h3>
<p>Replace is a directory based task for replacing the occurrence of a given string with another string 
in selected file.</p>
<p>If you want to replace a text that crosses line boundaries, you
must use a nested <code>&lt;replacetoken&gt;</code> element.</p>
<h3>Parameters</h3>
<table border="1" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0">
  <tr>
    <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">file</td>
    <td valign="top">file for which the token should be replaced.</td>
    <td align="center" rowspan="2">Exactly one of the two.</td>
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    <td valign="top">dir</td>
    <td valign="top">The base directory to use when replacing a token in 
      multiple files.</td>
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    <td valign="top">token</td>
    <td valign="top">the token which must be replaced.</td>
    <td valign="top" align="center">Yes, unless a nested <code>replacetoken</code>
      element is used.</td>
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    <td valign="top">value</td>
    <td valign="top">the new value for the token. When omitted, an empty string
      (&quot;&quot;) is used.</td>
    <td valign="top" align="center">No</td>
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    <td valign="top">propertyFile</td>
    <td valign="top">valid property file from which properties specified using nested <code>&lt;replacefilter&gt;</code> elements are drawn.</td>
    <td valign="top" align="center">Yes only if <i>property</i> attribute of <code>&lt;replacefilter&gt;</code> is used.</td>
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    <td valign="top">includes</td>
    <td valign="top">comma separated list of patterns of files that must be
      included. All files are included when omitted.</td>
    <td valign="top" align="center">No</td>
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    <td valign="top">includesfile</td>
    <td valign="top">the name of a file. Each line of this file is
      taken to be an include pattern</td>
    <td valign="top" align="center">No</td>
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    <td valign="top">excludes</td>
    <td valign="top">comma separated list of patterns of files that must be
      excluded. No files (except default excludes) are excluded when omitted.</td>
    <td valign="top" align="center">No</td>
  </tr>
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    <td valign="top">excludesfile</td>
    <td valign="top">the name of a file. Each line of this file is
      taken to be an exclude pattern</td>
    <td valign="top" align="center">No</td>
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    <td valign="top">defaultexcludes</td>
    <td valign="top">indicates whether default excludes should be used or not
      (&quot;yes&quot;/&quot;no&quot;). Default excludes are used when omitted.</td>
    <td valign="top" align="center">No</td>
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<h3>Examples</h3>
<pre>  &lt;replace file=&quot;${src}/index.html&quot; token=&quot;@@@&quot; value=&quot;wombat&quot;/&gt;</pre>
<p>replaces occurrences of the string &quot;@@@&quot; with the string
&quot;wombat&quot;, in the file <code>${src}/index.html</code>.</p>
<h3>Parameters specified as nested elements</h3>
<p>This task forms an implicit <a href="../CoreTypes/fileset.html">FileSet</a> and
supports all attributes of <code>&lt;fileset&gt;</code> as well as the
nested <code>&lt;include&gt;</code>, <code>&lt;exclude&gt;</code> and
<code>&lt;patternset&gt;</code> elements.</p>
<p>If either the text you want to replace or the replacement text
cross line boundaries, you can use nested elements to specify
them.</p>
<h3>Examples</h3>
<blockquote><pre>
&lt;replace dir=&quot;${src}&quot; value=&quot;wombat&quot;&gt;
  &lt;include name=&quot;**/*.html&quot;/&gt;
  &lt;replacetoken&gt;&lt;![CDATA[multi line
token]]>&lt;/replacetoken&gt;
&lt;/replace&gt;
</pre></blockquote>
<p>replaces occurrences of the string &quot;multi
line<i>\n</i>token&quot; with the string &quot;wombat&quot;, in all
HTML files in the directory <code>${src}</code>.Where <i>\n</i> is
the platform specific line separator.</p>
<blockquote><pre>
&lt;replace file=&quot;${src}/index.html&quot;&gt;
  &lt;replacetoken&gt;&lt;![CDATA[two line
token]]>&lt;/replacetoken&gt;
  &lt;replacevalue&gt;&lt;![CDATA[two line
token]]>&lt;/replacevalue&gt;
&lt;/replace&gt;
</pre></blockquote>
<h4>replacefilter</h4>
<p>In addition to allowing for multiple replacements, optional nested <code>&lt;replacefilter&gt;</code> elements allow replacement values to be extracted from a property file. The name of this file is specified using the <code>&lt;replace&gt;</code> attribute <i>propertyFile</i>.
</p>
<table border="1" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0">
  <tr>
    <td valign="top"><b>Attribute</b></td>
    <td valign="top"><b>Description</b></td>
    <td align="center" valign="top"><b>Required</b></td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td valign="top">token</td>
    <td valign="top">The string to search for.</td>
    <td align="center" valign="top">Yes</td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td valign="top">value</td>
    <td valign="top">The replacement string.</td>
    <td align="center" rowspan="2">Either may be specified, but not both. Both can be omitted, if desired.</td>
  </tr>
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    <td valign="top">property</td>
    <td valign="top">Name of the property whose value is to serve as the replacement value.</td>
  </tr>
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<p>If neither <i>value</i> nor <i>property</i> is used, the value provided using the <code>&lt;replace&gt;</code> attribute <i>value</i> and/or the <code>&lt;replacevalue&gt;</code> element is used. If no value was specified using either of these options, the token is replaced with an empty string.
</p>
<h3>Examples</h3>
<blockquote><pre>
&lt;replace 
    file=&quot;configure.sh&quot;
    value=&quot;defaultvalue&quot;
    propertyFile=&quot;source/name.properties&quot; &gt;
  &lt;replacefilter 
    token=&quot;@token1@&quot; /&gt;
  &lt;replacefilter 
    token=&quot;@token2@&quot; 
    value=&quot;value2&quot;/&gt;
  &lt;replacefilter 
    token=&quot;@token3@&quot; 
    property=&quot;property.key&quot;/&gt;
&lt;/replace&gt;
</pre></blockquote>
<p>In file <code>configure.sh</code>, replace all instances of &quot;@token1@&quot; with &quot;defaultvalue&quot;, all instances of &quot;@token2@&quot; with &quot;value2&quot;, and all instances of &quot;@token3@&quot; with the value of the property &quot;property.key&quot;, as it appears in property file <code>src/name.properties</code>.</p>
<p><b>Note:</b> It is possible to use either the <i>token</i>/<code>&lt;replacetoken&gt;</code> and <i>value</i>/<code>&lt;replacevalue&gt;</code> attributes/elements, the nested replacefilter elements, or both in the same operation.
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