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LoadProperties

Description

Load a file's contents as Ant properties. This is equivalent to <property file="..."/> except that it supports nested <filterchain> elements and it cannot be specified outside a target.

Parameters

Attribute Description Required
srcFile source file Yes

The LoadProperties task supports nested FilterChains.

Examples

    <loadproperties srcFile="file.properties"/>

Load contents of file.properties as Ant properties.
    <loadproperties srcFile="file.properties">

      <filterchain>

        <linecontains>

          <contains value="import."/>

        </linecontains>

      </filterchain>

    </loadproperties>

Read the lines that contain the string "import." from the file "file.properties" and load them as Ant properties.

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