Looping through a file contents

[Richard Grey <ha...@haamdhani.com>]

Hello,

I've executed an external command using ant's <exec ...> task and now have the resulting output in a file.

How can I then step through this output file and get the values on each line which I then need to use as parameter input to a repeated task ?

EG - my output file contains the following:
--
fred
bob
alice
--

I therefore need to call a target "xyz" 3 times, with $(arg)=fred first, then $(arg)=bob etc 

Or maybe my output should be dumped into a property ? Even then, how do I cycle through the output list ?

Or am I looking at writing a <taskdef ...> from scratch ?


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