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<h2><a name="loadproperties">LoadProperties</a></h2>
<h3>Description</h3>
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Load a file's contents as Ant properties. This is equivalent
to <property file|resource="..."/> except that it
supports nested <filterchain> elements.
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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 <path> 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><classpath></code>
element for use with the <i>resource</i> attribute.
<h3>Examples</h3>
<pre> <loadproperties srcFile="file.properties"/>
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Load contents of file.properties as Ant properties.
<pre> <loadproperties srcFile="file.properties">
<filterchain>
<<a href="../CoreTypes/filterchain.html#linecontains">linecontains</a>>
<contains value="import."/>
</linecontains>
</filterchain>
</loadproperties>
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Read the lines that contain the string "import."
from the file "file.properties" and load them as
Ant properties.
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