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<h1><loadfile></h1>
<p> Load a text file into a single property. </p>
<p> Unless an encoding is specified, the encoding associated with the system's current ANSI code page is used. </p>
<p> An UTF-8, little-endian Unicode, and big-endian Unicode encoded text file is automatically recognized, if the file starts with the appropriate byte order marks. </p>
<h3>Parameters</h3>
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<th>Attribute</th>
<th style="text-align: center;">Type</th>
<th>Description</th>
<th style="text-align: center;">Required</th>
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<td valign="top" class="required">file</td>
<td style="text-align: center;">file</td>
<td> The file to load. </td>
<td style="text-align: center;">True</td>
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<td valign="top" class="required">property</td>
<td style="text-align: center;">string</td>
<td> The name of the property to save the content to. </td>
<td style="text-align: center;">True</td>
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<td valign="top">encoding</td>
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<a href="http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/cpref/html/frlrfSystemTextEncodingClassTopic.asp">Encoding</a>
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<td> The encoding to use when loading the file. The default is the encoding associated with the system's current ANSI code page. </td>
<td style="text-align: center;">False</td>
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<td valign="top">failonerror</td>
<td style="text-align: center;">bool</td>
<td> Determines if task failure stops the build, or is just reported. The default is <b>true</b>. </td>
<td style="text-align: center;">False</td>
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<td style="text-align: center;">bool</td>
<td> If <b>true</b> then the task will be executed; otherwise, skipped. The default is <b>true</b>. </td>
<td style="text-align: center;">False</td>
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<td style="text-align: center;">bool</td>
<td> Opposite of <code>if</code>. If <b>false</b> then the task will be executed; otherwise, skipped. The default is <b>false</b>. </td>
<td style="text-align: center;">False</td>
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<td style="text-align: center;">bool</td>
<td> Determines whether the task should report detailed build log messages. The default is <b>false</b>. </td>
<td style="text-align: center;">False</td>
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<<a href="../types/filterchain.html">filterchain</a>>
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<div class="nested-element"> The filterchain definition to use. <p /></div>
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<h3>Examples</h3>
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<p> Load file <code>message.txt</code> into property "message". </p>
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<loadfile
file="message.txt"
property="message" />
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<p> Load a file using the "latin-1" encoding. </p>
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<loadfile
file="loadfile.xml"
property="encoded-file"
encoding="iso-8859-1" />
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<p> Load a file, replacing all <code>@NOW@</code> tokens with the current date/time. </p>
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<loadfile file="token.txt" property="token-file">
<filterchain>
<replacetokens>
<token key="NOW" value="${datetime::now()}" />
</replacetokens>
</filterchain>
</loadfile>
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<h3>Requirements</h3>
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<b>Assembly:</b> NAnt.Core (0.90.3780.0)
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