/* * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more * contributor license agreements. See the NOTICE file distributed with * this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership. * The ASF licenses this file to You under the Apache License, Version 2.0 * (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with * the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at * * http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 * * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and * limitations under the License. * */ package org.apache.tools.ant.filters; /** * Like the Unix uniq(1) command, only returns tokens that are * different from their ancestor token. * * <p>This filter is probably most useful if used together with a * sortfilter.</p> * * @since Ant 1.8.0 */ public class UniqFilter extends TokenFilter.ChainableReaderFilter { private String lastLine = null; public String filter(String string) { if (lastLine == null || !lastLine.equals(string)) { lastLine = string; return lastLine; } return null; } }