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You have misspelled it.  It is spelled "filtersfile".  You forgot the s.

    <filter filtersfile="test.properties"      />

andy.


"Lin, Frank" wrote:

> Thank you for you answer, andy.  But do you or anyone know the filterfile
> problem.
> I got this error when I used it:
> BUILD FAILED
>
> D:\temp\build.xml:17: Class org.apache.tools.ant.taskdefs.Filter doesn't
> support the "filterfile" attribute
>
>   <filter filterfile="test.properties"  />
>   <copy todir="./test"  filtering="yes" >
>         <fileset dir="." includes="test.file" />
>   </copy>
>
> Frank
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: ahammond@answerfriend.com [mailto:ahammond@answerfriend.com]
> Sent: February 16, 2001 5:30 PM
> To: ant-user@jakarta.apache.org
> Subject: Re: Filters in ant
>
> You must set filtering="yes" attribute in the copy task... it is defaulted
> to
> no.
>
> andy.
>
> "Lin, Frank" wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > Does anyone know how to use filter in Ant?   I used the token and value
> > pair, but it did not replace the token
> >
> >   <filter token="year" value="2000" />
> >   <copy todir="./test" >
> >         <fileset dir="." includes="test.file" />
> >   </copy>
> >
> > test.file:
> > year
> > @year@
> >
> > Also, the filterfile was not supported either.
> >  Class org.apache.tools.ant.taskdefs.Filter doesn't support the
> "filterfile"
> > attribute
> >
> > Thanks
> >
> > Frank