Or you can use the replacefilterfile='file' attribute on the <replace> task
and specify all the replacements in the 'file'.
Later,
Ninju
----- Original Message ----
From: Ken Gentle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: Ant Users List <user@ant.apache.org>
Sent: Friday, January 27, 2006 8:18:51 AM
Subject: Re: Expanding properties
Untried:
<!-- defines your properties as tokens -->
<token file="values.properties"/>
<!-- Loads the file doing "token" substitution -->
<loadfile srcfile="contents.txt" property="tmp.property">
<filterchain>
<replacetokens beginToken="$${" endToken="}" />
</filterchain>
</loadfile>
HTH...
Ken
At 06:29 2006-01-27, you wrote:
>Hi
>
>Say I have a file, called contents.txt, which contains the text:
>
>contents.txt:
>The value is ${something}
>
>And I have a property file values.properties which reads
>
>values.propeties:
>something=somevalue
>
>How to I turn contents.txt into
>
>contents.txt:
>The value is somevalue
>
>I can do this with
>
> <property file="values.properties"/>
> <replace file="contents.txt">
> <replacefilter token="${something}" value="${something}"/>
> </replace>
>
>But this would be painstaking if I had lots of properties to replace - I'd
>have to define each property and then add a <replacefilter> for each one.
>
>I had hoped that this would work:
>
> <property file="values.properties"/>
> <loadfile property="temp.property" srcfile="contents.txt"/>
> <echo message="${temp.property}"/>
>
>But it doesn't - what I'm really after is a way to re-use the in-file
>property expansion performed by <property>. Is there a way to do this?
>
>Tim
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