Apache Ant Tasks - Length

Description

Length task display or set a property containing length information for a string, a file, or one or more nested resource collections. It can also be used as a condition.

Properties

Sr.No	Attributes & Description
1	Property The property to set.
2	Mode File length mode; when all the resulting value is the sum of all included resources' lengths; when each the task outputs the absolute path and length of each included resource, one per line.
3	File Single file whose length to report.
4	Resource Single resource whose length to report (using extended properties handling).
5	String The string whose length to report.
6	Trim Whether to trim when operating on a string.
7	Length Comparison length.
8	When Comparison type: equal, eq, greater, gt, less, lt, ge (greater or equal), ne (not equal), le (less or equal).

Example

Usage

Create build.xml with the following content −

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<project name="TutorialPoint" default="info">
   <length string="tutorialspoint" property="text.size"/>
   <target name="info">            
      <echo message="${text.size}"/>
   </target>
</project>

Output

Running Ant on the above build file produces the following output −

F:\tutorialspoint\ant>ant
Buildfile: F:\tutorialspoint\ant\build.xml

info:
   [echo] 14

BUILD SUCCESSFUL
Total time: 0 seconds