Apache Ant TasksLoadFileLoadFileDescriptionSpecialization of loadresource thatworks on files exclusively and provides a srcFile attribute forconvenience. Unless an encoding is specified, the encoding of thecurrent locale is used. If the resource content is empty (maybe after processing a filterchain) the property is not set. Parameters | Attribute | Description | Required | | srcFile | source file | Yes | | property | property to save to | Yes | | encoding | encoding to use when loading the file | No | | failonerror | Whether to halt the build on failure | No, default "true" | | quiet | Do not display a diagnostic message (unless Apache Ant has been invoked with the -verbose or -debug switches) or modify the exit status to reflect an error. Setting this to "true" implies setting failonerror to "false". Since Ant 1.7.0. | No, default "false" | The LoadFile task supports nested FilterChains. Examples <loadfile property="message" srcFile="message.txt"/> Load file message.txt into property "message"; an <echo>can print this. This is identical to <loadresource property="message"> <file file="message.txt"/> </loadresource> <loadfile property="encoded-file" srcFile="loadfile.xml" encoding="ISO-8859-1"/> Load a file using the latin-1 encoding <loadfile property="optional.value" srcFile="optional.txt" failonerror="false"/> Load a file, don't fail if it is missing (a message is printed, though) <loadfile property="mail.recipients" srcFile="recipientlist.txt"> <filterchain> <striplinebreaks/> </filterchain> </loadfile> Load a property which can be used as a parameter for another task (in this case mail),merging lines to ensure this happens. <loadfile property="system.configuration.xml" srcFile="configuration.xml"> <filterchain> <expandproperties/> </filterchain> </loadfile> Load an XML file into a property, expanding all properties declaredin the file in the process. | 
