<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> <title>Ant-contrib Tasks: IniFile</title> </head> <body> <h1>IniFile</h1> <p>Build and Edit Windows .ini files. Only the simple edits, <code>remove</code> and <code>set</code> are allowed. Set has limited computation capability which is described later.</p> <h2>Parameters</h2> <table border="1" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0"> <tr> <th>Attribute</th> <th>Description</th> <th>Required</th> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top">source</td> <td valign="top">The name source .ini file to read in.</td> <td align="center" valign="top">No.</td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top">dest</td> <td valign="top">The name destination .ini file to write.</td> <td align="center" valign="top">Yes.</td> </tr> </table> <h2>Parameters specified as nested elements</h2> <code>remove</code> <table border="1" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0"> <tr> <th>Attribute</th> <th>Description</th> <th>Required</th> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top">section</td> <td valign="top">The name of the section</td> <td align="center" valign="top">Yes.</td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top">property</td> <td valign="top">The name property.</td> <td align="center" valign="top">No. If not supplied, the entire section will be removed</td> </tr> </table> <code>set</code> <table border="1" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0"> <tr> <th>Attribute</th> <th>Description</th> <th>Required</th> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top">section</td> <td valign="top">The name of the section</td> <td align="center" valign="top">Yes.</td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top">property</td> <td valign="top">The name property.</td> <td align="center" valign="top">Yes.</td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top">value</td> <td valign="top">The value to set the property to.</td> <td align="center" valign="top">No, if <code>operation</code> is specified.</td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top">operation</td> <td valign="top">The operation to perform on the existing value. Possible values are "+" and "-", which add and subtract 1, respectively from the existing value. If the value doesn't already exist, the set is not performed.</td> <td align="center" valign="top">No, if <code>value</code> is specified.</td> </tr> </table> <h2>Example</h2> <pre><code> <inifile source="myprog.ini" dest="myprog.new.ini"> <set section="Section1" property="release-date" value="${todays.date}" /> <set section="Section1" property="build-number" operation="+" /> <remove section="Section2" property="useless" /> <remove section="OutdatedSection" /> </inifile> </code></pre> <hr> <p align="center">Copyright © 2002-2003 Ant-Contrib Project. All rights Reserved.</p> </body> </html>