Hello Michael,
Try using <trim> inside filter chain.
A sample snippet of the build
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<move file="tab.txt" tofile="${masterlistfile}">
<filterchain>
<concatfilter append="ind.txt"/>
<concatfilter append="seq.txt"/>
<concatfilter append="ops.txt"/>
<concatfilter append="vw.txt"/>
<concatfilter append="fn.txt"/>
<concatfilter append="sp.txt"/>
<concatfilter append="sql.txt"/>
<concatfilter append="trg.txt"/>
<concatfilter append="opb.txt"/>
<concatfilter append="syn.txt"/>
<tokenfilter>
<trim/>
<ignoreblank/>
</tokenfilter>
</filterchain>
</move>
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Mohan Guttula
-----Original Message-----
From: Michael Giroux [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, May 01, 2006 1:33 PM
To: Ant Users List
Subject: Would like to suppress leading spaces in multi-line <echo> and
<concat>
Given that most ANT scripts use some form of indentation to improve
readability, it would be nice if the <echo> task had an option to
strip leading white-space. In general, I would like the messages that
are sent to System.out (or logger) to be void of the leading
whitespace.
ex.
<echo>first line of message
second line of message
third line of message
</echo>
The nested <header> element of the <concat> task does provide a
trimleading option, but that only applies to the header text.
Having a trimleading attribute for both <echo> and <concat> would be
very nice.
Michael Giroux
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