diff --git a/src/main/org/apache/tools/ant/taskdefs/KeySubst.java b/src/main/org/apache/tools/ant/taskdefs/KeySubst.java
index 01ba1ade6..3ba553535 100644
--- a/src/main/org/apache/tools/ant/taskdefs/KeySubst.java
+++ b/src/main/org/apache/tools/ant/taskdefs/KeySubst.java
@@ -100,7 +100,6 @@ public class KeySubst extends Task {
 
             String line = null;
             String newline = null;
-            int length;
             line = br.readLine();
             while (line != null) {
                 if ( line.length() == 0 ) {
diff --git a/src/main/org/apache/tools/ant/taskdefs/MatchingTask.java b/src/main/org/apache/tools/ant/taskdefs/MatchingTask.java
index 04826c8f5..b5bdea1db 100644
--- a/src/main/org/apache/tools/ant/taskdefs/MatchingTask.java
+++ b/src/main/org/apache/tools/ant/taskdefs/MatchingTask.java
@@ -171,7 +171,6 @@ public abstract class MatchingTask extends Task {
             "Please use the excludes attribute.",
             Project.MSG_WARN);
         if (ignoreString != null && ignoreString.length() > 0) {
-            Vector tmpExcludes = new Vector();
             StringTokenizer tok = new StringTokenizer(ignoreString, ", ", false);
             while (tok.hasMoreTokens()) {
                 createExclude().setName("**/"+tok.nextToken().trim()+"/**");