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<h2><a name="loadfile">LoadFile</a></h2>
<h3>Description</h3>
<p> Load a text file into a single property. Unless an encoding is specified,
 the encoding of the current locale is used. </p>
<h3>Parameters</h3>
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    <td valign="top"><b>Attribute</b></td>
    <td valign="top"><b>Description</b></td>
    <td align="center" valign="top"><b>Required</b></td>
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    <td valign="top">srcFile</td>
    <td valign="top">source file</td>
    <td valign="top" align="center">Yes</td>
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    <td valign="top">property</td>
    <td valign="top">property to save to</td>
    <td valign="top" align="center">Yes</td>
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    <td valign="top">encoding</td>
    <td valign="top">encoding to use when loading the file</td>
    <td align="center" valign="top">No</td>
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    <td valign="top">failonerror</td>
    <td valign="top">Whether to halt the build on failure</td>
    <td align="center" valign="top">No, default "true"</td>
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<p>The LoadFile task supports nested <a
 href="../CoreTypes/filterchain.html">FilterChain</a>s. </p>
<h3>Examples</h3>
<pre>    &lt;loadfile property="message"<br>      srcFile="message.txt"/&gt;<br></pre>
Load file message.txt into property "message"; an <tt>&lt;echo&gt;</tt>can
print this. 
<pre>    &lt;loadfile property="encoded-file"<br>      srcFile="loadfile.xml"<br>      encoding="ISO-8859-1"/&gt;<br></pre>
Load a file using the latin-1 encoding 
<pre>    &lt;loadfile<br>      property="optional.value"<br>      srcFile="optional.txt"<br>      failonerror="false"/&gt;<br></pre>
Load a file, don't fail if it is missing (a message is printed, though) 
<pre>    &lt;loadfile<br>      property="mail.recipients"<br>      srcFile="recipientlist.txt"&gt;<br>      &lt;filterchain&gt;<br>        &lt;<a
 href="../CoreTypes/filterchain.html#striplinebreaks">striplinebreaks</a>/&gt;<br>      &lt;/filterchain&gt;<br>    &lt;/loadfile&gt;<br></pre>
Load a property which can be used as a parameter for another task (in this
case mail), merging lines to ensure this happens. 
<pre>    &lt;loadfile<br>      property="system.configuration.xml"<br>      srcFile="configuration.xml"&gt;<br>        &lt;filterchain&gt;<br>          &lt;<a
 href="../CoreTypes/filterchain.html#expandproperties">expandproperties</a>/&gt;<br>        &lt;/filterchain&gt;<br>    &lt;/loadfile&gt;<br></pre>
Load an XML file into a property, expanding all properties declared in the
file in the process. 
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