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<h2><a name="loadproperties">LoadProperties</a></h2>
<h3>Description</h3>
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Load a file's contents as Ant properties. This is equivalent
to &lt;property file=&quot;...&quot;/&gt; except that it
supports nested &lt;filterchain&gt; elements and it cannot be
specified outside a target.
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<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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The LoadProperties task supports nested <a href="../CoreTypes/filterchain.html">
FilterChain</a>s.
<h3>Examples</h3>
<pre> &lt;loadproperties srcFile="file.properties" /&gt;
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Load contents of file.properties as Ant properties.
<pre> &lt;loadproperties srcFile="file.properties"&gt;
&lt;filterchain&gt;
&lt;<a href="../CoreTypes/filterchain.html#linecontains">linecontains</a>&gt;
&lt;contains value="import.&quot;/&gt;
&lt;linecontains/&gt;
&lt;/filterchaint&gt;
&lt;/loadproperties&gt;
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Read the lines that contain the string &quot;import.&quot;
from the file &quot;file.properties&quot; and load them as
Ant properties.
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