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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