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From: "Jason van Zyl" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Steve Loughran" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Monday, February 11, 2002 13:44
Subject: LoadFile task
> Hi Steve,
>
> Can I ask what you're using the <loadfile> task for?
loading in results of some external tasks, using these as filters in copies,
printing the output of tomcat deploy request, etc.
>
> I am taking your suggestion and trying to use the <loadfile> task but I
have
> a couple questions and was wondering if you would accept a patch?
>
> 1) I would like to be able to filter out comment, so would it be
acceptable
> to add a property that sets comment line characteristics:
>
> <loadfile comments="#,--"/>
ask the group on that one; I dont see too much objection. Maybe the attr
should be 'lineComments' to enable someone
else to filter out /* */, (* *) and the like, which is a much harder
proposition.
> 2) Could I add a property that would add a delimiter to use when the lines
> are joined?
yup. But you have to not add two copies of the delimiter on a CRLF pair.
>
> 3) How would I use the property as a refid so that I could use it in a
> classpath?
properties arent refids
<loadfile property="loaded" srcFile="file.txt"/>
<classpath id="loaded.classpath">
<pathelement path="${loaded}"/>
</classpath>
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