Have you looked that the propertyfile attribute of the <replace> task. It
allows you define a file (in JAVA property file format) that contains all the
replacements instructions.
--- "Brown, Carlton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hello,
>
>
>
> I'm looking to do bulk replacement of tokens in a file. This is to
> replace a perl-based build solution. I have created the
> single-replacement solution in ant, but I am somewhat stumped as to how
> to do a bulk substitution.
>
>
>
> The following code copies all files named *.src to a new file without
> the *.src suffix, replacing APP_HOME with /usr/local/app, as expected:
>
>
>
>
>
> <target name="do-macro" depends="check-macro" unless="macro.uptodate">
>
> <echo message="Status of replacement targets is ${macro.uptodate}" />
>
> <copy todir="${build.root}" overwrite="true">
>
> <fileset dir="${src.root}" includes="**/*.src" />
>
> <mapper type="glob" from="*.src" to="*" />
>
> <filterset begintoken="@#$%" endtoken="%$#@">
>
> <filter token="APP_HOME" value="/usr/local/app"
> />
>
> </filterset>
>
> </copy>
>
> </target>
>
>
>
> The problem is that we have something like 50 other tokens to replace in
> addition to APP_HOME. I do not want to clutter this build file with
> the filter definitions, and I'd like to share these filter definitions
> with other build tasks. I'd like to define the filterset in an
> external file, if possible.
>
>
>
> Can someone get me going in the right direction? I read the FAQ and
> this does not seem to be covered.
>
>
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