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<title>LoadFile Task</title>
<title>LoadFile Task</title>
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<h2><a name="loadfile">LoadFile</a></h2>
<h3>Description</h3>
<p>
Load a text file into a single property. Unless an encoding is specified,
the encoding of the current locale is used.
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<p> Load a text file into a single property. Unless an encoding is specified,
the encoding of the current locale is used. </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">Whether to halt the build on failure</td>
<td align="center" valign="top">No, default "true"</td>
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The LoadFile task supports nested <a href="../CoreTypes/filterchain.html">
FilterChain</a>s.
<p>The LoadFile task supports nested <a
href="../CoreTypes/filterchain.html">FilterChain</a>s. </p>
<h3>Examples</h3>
<pre> <loadfile property="message"
srcFile="message.txt"/>
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Load file message.txt into property "message"; an <tt><echo></tt>
can print this.
<pre> <loadfile property="encoded-file"
srcFile="loadfile.xml"
encoding="ISO-8859-1"/>
</pre>
Load a file using the latin-1 encoding
<pre> <loadfile
property="optional.value"
srcFile="optional.txt"
failonerror="false"/>
</pre>
Load a file, don't fail if it is missing (a message is printed, though)
<pre> <loadfile
property="mail.recipients"
srcFile="recipientlist.txt">
<filterchain>
<<a href="../CoreTypes/filterchain.html#striplinebreaks">striplinebreaks</a>/>
</filterchain>
</loadfile>
</pre>
Load a property which can be used as a parameter for another task (in this case mail),
merging lines to ensure this happens.
<pre> <loadfile
property="system.configuration.xml"
srcFile="configuration.xml">
<<a href="../CoreTypes/filterchain.html#expandproperties">expandproperties</a>/>
</loadfile>
</pre>
Load an XML file into a property, expanding all properties declared
in the file in the process.
<pre> <loadfile property="message"<br> srcFile="message.txt"/><br></pre>
Load file message.txt into property "message"; an <tt><echo></tt>can
print this.
<pre> <loadfile property="encoded-file"<br> srcFile="loadfile.xml"<br> encoding="ISO-8859-1"/><br></pre>
Load a file using the latin-1 encoding
<pre> <loadfile<br> property="optional.value"<br> srcFile="optional.txt"<br> failonerror="false"/><br></pre>
Load a file, don't fail if it is missing (a message is printed, though)
<pre> <loadfile<br> property="mail.recipients"<br> srcFile="recipientlist.txt"><br> <filterchain><br> <<a
href="../CoreTypes/filterchain.html#striplinebreaks">striplinebreaks</a>/><br> </filterchain><br> </loadfile><br></pre>
Load a property which can be used as a parameter for another task (in this
case mail), merging lines to ensure this happens.
<pre> <loadfile<br> property="system.configuration.xml"<br> srcFile="configuration.xml"><br> <filterchain><br> <<a
href="../CoreTypes/filterchain.html#expandproperties">expandproperties</a>/><br> </filterchain><br> </loadfile><br></pre>
Load an XML file into a property, expanding all properties declared in the
file in the process.
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Erik Hatcher