Paul Taylor schrieb:
I dont understand Ruby so this wouldnt be an option for me. It just seems that this is such a common problem that it shoulg go into ant proper
As you already noticed, (core) ant has it limits. OK, to be fair, it was never meant as a scripting language, but is often used like that. If i get to the limits i use <script> with (j)ruby or write a new task. There are other languages that run in the VM via BSF, f.e. if you want a syntax similar to java, use beanshell or javascript (rhino).
also possible without antcontrib = <script language="ruby"> <![CDATA[ echoTask = $project.createTask 'echo' IO.readlines("Y:/foobar.txt").each do |line| echoTask.addText(line) echoTask.execute end ]]> </script> you have full access to the ant api
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