And maybe there are some existing tasks you could use, like
http://antcount.sourceforge.net/ ;-)
Jan
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>Betreff: AW: Counting
>import java.io.BufferedReader;
>import java.io.File;
>import java.io.FileReader;
>import java.util.ArrayList;
>
>import org.apache.tools.ant.BuildException;
>import org.apache.tools.ant.Task;
>
>public class LineCounter extends Task
>{
> public String filename;
> public void Execute()