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| <h2><a name="replace">Replace</a></h2> |
| <h3>Description</h3> |
| <p>Replace is a directory based task for replacing the occurrence of a given string with another string |
| in selected file.</p> |
| <p>If you want to replace a text that crosses line boundaries, you |
| must use a nested <code><replacetoken></code> element.</p> |
| <h3>Parameters</h3> |
| <table border="1" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0"> |
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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">file</td> |
| <td valign="top">file for which the token should be replaced.</td> |
| <td align="center" rowspan="2">Exactly one of the two.</td> |
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| <td valign="top">dir</td> |
| <td valign="top">The base directory to use when replacing a token in |
| multiple files.</td> |
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| <td valign="top">encoding</td> |
| <td valign="top">The encoding of the files upon which replace operates.</td> |
| <td align="center">No - defaults to default JVM encoding</td> |
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| <td valign="top">token</td> |
| <td valign="top">the token which must be replaced.</td> |
| <td valign="top" align="center">Yes, unless a nested <code>replacetoken</code> |
| element is used.</td> |
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| <td valign="top">value</td> |
| <td valign="top">the new value for the token. When omitted, an empty string |
| ("") is used.</td> |
| <td valign="top" align="center">No</td> |
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| <td valign="top">summary</td> |
| <td valign="top">Indicates whether a summary of the replace operation |
| should be produced, detailing how many token occurrences |
| and files were processed |
| </td> |
| <td valign="top" align="center">No, by default no summary is produced</td> |
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| <td valign="top">propertyFile</td> |
| <td valign="top">valid property file from which properties specified using nested <code><replacefilter></code> elements are drawn.</td> |
| <td valign="top" align="center">Yes only if <i>property</i> attribute of <code><replacefilter></code> is used.</td> |
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| <td valign="top">includes</td> |
| <td valign="top">comma separated list of patterns of files that must be |
| included. All files are included when omitted.</td> |
| <td valign="top" align="center">No</td> |
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| <td valign="top">includesfile</td> |
| <td valign="top">the name of a file. Each line of this file is |
| taken to be an include pattern</td> |
| <td valign="top" align="center">No</td> |
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| <td valign="top">excludes</td> |
| <td valign="top">comma separated list of patterns of files that must be |
| excluded. No files (except default excludes) are excluded when omitted.</td> |
| <td valign="top" align="center">No</td> |
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| <td valign="top">excludesfile</td> |
| <td valign="top">the name of a file. Each line of this file is |
| taken to be an exclude pattern</td> |
| <td valign="top" align="center">No</td> |
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| <td valign="top">defaultexcludes</td> |
| <td valign="top">indicates whether default excludes should be used or not |
| ("yes"/"no"). Default excludes are used when omitted.</td> |
| <td valign="top" align="center">No</td> |
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| <h3>Examples</h3> |
| <pre> <replace file="${src}/index.html" token="@@@" value="wombat"/></pre> |
| <p>replaces occurrences of the string "@@@" with the string |
| "wombat", in the file <code>${src}/index.html</code>.</p> |
| <h3>Parameters specified as nested elements</h3> |
| <p>This task forms an implicit <a href="../CoreTypes/fileset.html">FileSet</a> and |
| supports all attributes of <code><fileset></code> as well as the |
| nested <code><include></code>, <code><exclude></code> and |
| <code><patternset></code> elements.</p> |
| <p>If either the text you want to replace or the replacement text |
| cross line boundaries, you can use nested elements to specify |
| them.</p> |
| <h3>Examples</h3> |
| <blockquote><pre> |
| <replace dir="${src}" value="wombat"> |
| <include name="**/*.html"/> |
| <replacetoken><![CDATA[multi line |
| token]]></replacetoken> |
| </replace> |
| </pre></blockquote> |
| <p>replaces occurrences of the string "multi |
| line<i>\n</i>token" with the string "wombat", in all |
| HTML files in the directory <code>${src}</code>.Where <i>\n</i> is |
| the platform specific line separator.</p> |
| <blockquote><pre> |
| <replace file="${src}/index.html"> |
| <replacetoken><![CDATA[two line |
| token]]></replacetoken> |
| <replacevalue><![CDATA[two line |
| token]]></replacevalue> |
| </replace> |
| </pre></blockquote> |
| <h4>replacefilter</h4> |
| <p>In addition to allowing for multiple replacements, optional nested <code><replacefilter></code> elements allow replacement values to be extracted from a property file. The name of this file is specified using the <code><replace></code> attribute <i>propertyFile</i>. |
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| <table border="1" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0"> |
| <tr> |
| <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">token</td> |
| <td valign="top">The string to search for.</td> |
| <td align="center" valign="top">Yes</td> |
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| <td valign="top">value</td> |
| <td valign="top">The replacement string.</td> |
| <td align="center" rowspan="2">Either may be specified, but not both. Both can be omitted, if desired.</td> |
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| <td valign="top">property</td> |
| <td valign="top">Name of the property whose value is to serve as the replacement value.</td> |
| </tr> |
| </table> |
| <p>If neither <i>value</i> nor <i>property</i> is used, the value provided using the <code><replace></code> attribute <i>value</i> and/or the <code><replacevalue></code> element is used. If no value was specified using either of these options, the token is replaced with an empty string. |
| </p> |
| <h3>Examples</h3> |
| <blockquote><pre> |
| <replace |
| file="configure.sh" |
| value="defaultvalue" |
| propertyFile="source/name.properties" > |
| <replacefilter |
| token="@token1@" /> |
| <replacefilter |
| token="@token2@" |
| value="value2"/> |
| <replacefilter |
| token="@token3@" |
| property="property.key"/> |
| </replace> |
| </pre></blockquote> |
| <p>In file <code>configure.sh</code>, replace all instances of "@token1@" with "defaultvalue", all instances of "@token2@" with "value2", and all instances of "@token3@" with the value of the property "property.key", as it appears in property file <code>src/name.properties</code>.</p> |
| <p><b>Note:</b> It is possible to use either the <i>token</i>/<code><replacetoken></code> and <i>value</i>/<code><replacevalue></code> attributes/elements, the nested replacefilter elements, or both in the same operation. |
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