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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>
<p>The output file is only written if it differs from the existing
file. This prevents spurious rebuilds based on unchanged files which
have been regenerated by this task.</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 or the replacefilterfile
attribute 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>
</tr>
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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">replacefilterfile</td>
<td valign="top">valid property file. Each property will be
treated as a replacefilter where <code>token</code> is the name of
the property and <code>value</code> is the properties value.
<td valign="top" align="center">No.</td>
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<td valign="top">includes</td>
<td valign="top">comma- or space-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- or space-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>
</tr>
</table>
<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>.
</p>
<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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<tr>
<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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