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22<title>Length Task</title>
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26
27<h2><a name="length">Length</a></h2>
28<h3>Description</h3>
29<p>Display or set a property containing length information for
30 a string, a file, or one or more nested
31 <a href="../CoreTypes/resources.html#collection">Resource Collection</a>s.
32 Can also be used as a condition. <b>Since Ant 1.6.3</b></p>
33<h3>Parameters</h3>
34<table border="1" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0">
35 <tr>
36 <td valign="top"><b>Attribute</b></td>
37 <td valign="top"><b>Description</b></td>
38 <td align="center" valign="top"><b>Required</b></td>
39 </tr>
40 <tr>
41 <td valign="top">property</td>
42 <td valign="top">The property to set. If omitted
43 the results are written to the log. Ignored when
44 processing as a condition.</td>
45 <td valign="top" align="center">No</td>
46 </tr>
47 <tr>
48 <td valign="top">file</td>
49 <td valign="top">Single file whose length to report.</td>
50 <td valign="top" align="center" rowspan="2">One of these,
51 or one or more nested filesets</td>
52 </tr>
53 <tr>
54 <td valign="top">string</td>
55 <td valign="top">The string whose length to report.</td>
56 </tr>
57 <tr>
58 <td valign="top">mode</td>
59 <td valign="top">File length mode; when &quot;all&quot; the resulting
60 value is the sum of all included resources' lengths; when &quot;each&quot;
61 the task outputs the absolute path and length of each included resource,
62 one per line. Ignored when processing as a condition.</td>
63 <td valign="top" align="center">No; default is &quot;all&quot;</td>
64 </tr>
65 <tr>
66 <td valign="top">trim</td>
67 <td valign="top">Whether to trim when operating on a string.</td>
68 <td valign="top" align="center">No; only valid when string is set</td>
69 </tr>
70 <tr>
71 <td valign="top">length</td>
72 <td valign="top">Comparison length for processing as a condition.</td>
73 <td valign="top" align="center">Yes, in condition mode</td>
74 </tr>
75 <tr>
76 <td valign="top">when</td>
77 <td valign="top">Comparison type: "equal", "eq", "greater", "gt", "less",
78 "lt", "ge" (greater or equal), "ne" (not equal), "le" (less or equal)
79 for use when operating as a condition.</td>
80 <td valign="top" align="center">No; default is "equal"</td>
81 </tr>
82</table>
83<h3>Parameters specified as nested elements</h3>
84<h4>Resource Collections</h4>
85<p>You can include resources via nested
86 <a href="../CoreTypes/resources.html#collection">Resource Collection</a>s.</p>
87<h3>Examples</h3>
88<pre>&lt;length string=&quot;foo&quot; property=&quot;length.foo&quot; /&gt;
89</pre>
90<p>Stores the length of the string &quot;foo&quot; in the property named
91<i>length.foo</i>.</p>
92<pre>&lt;length file=&quot;bar&quot; property=&quot;length.bar&quot; /&gt;
93</pre>
94<p>Stores the length of file &quot;bar&quot; in the property named
95<i>length.bar</i>.</p>
96
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