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<h2 id="loadresource">LoadResource</h2>
<p><em>Since Apache Ant 1.7</em></p>
<h3>Description</h3>
<p>Load a text resource into a single property. Unless an encoding is specified, the encoding of the
current locale is used. Resources to load are specified as
nested <a href="../Types/resources.html">resource</a> elements or single element resource
collections. If the resource content is empty (maybe after processing a <code>filterchain</code>)
the property is not set.</p>
<p>Since properties are immutable, the task will not change the value of an existing property.</p>
<h3>Parameters</h3>
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<th scope="col">Attribute</th>
<th scope="col">Description</th>
<th scope="col">Required</th>
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<td>property</td>
<td>property to save to</td>
<td>Yes</td>
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<td>encoding</td>
<td>encoding to use when loading the resource</td>
<td>No</td>
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<td>failonerror</td>
<td>Whether to halt the build on failure</td>
<td>No; default is <q>true</q></td>
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<td>quiet</td>
<td>Do not display a diagnostic message (unless Ant has been invoked with
the <kbd>-verbose</kbd> or <kbd>-debug</kbd> switches) or modify the exit status to
reflect an error. Setting this to <q>true</q> implies setting <var>failonerror</var>
to <q>false</q>.</td>
<td>No; default is <q>false</q></td>
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</table>
<p>The LoadResource task supports nested <a href="../Types/filterchain.html">FilterChain</a>s.</p>
<h3>Examples</h3>
<p>Load the entry point of Ant's homepage into property <code>homepage</code>;
an <code>&lt;echo&gt;</code> can print this.</p>
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&lt;loadresource property="homepage"&gt;
&lt;url url="https://ant.apache.org/index.html"/&gt;
&lt;/loadresource&gt;</pre>
<p>For more examples see the <a href="loadfile.html">loadfile</a> task.</p>
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