Mr Evans Hard to believe that anyone would name a file @filename I would suggest downloading and isntalling ant-contrib http://sourceforge.net/projects/ant-contrib
then constructing the filename with special characters to a mutable variable http://ant-contrib.sourceforge.net/tasks/variable_task.html and then assign your build.xml immutable property ${root-filename} to the constructed mutable variable then using it in your macrodef file=${root-filename} Understand? Martin- ----- Original Message ----- From: "Laran Evans" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Ant Users List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, December 08, 2004 1:47 PM Subject: Macro param issue with dirname > So what's wrong with this? Intellij tells me that the @{root} in > file="@{root}" on line 4 is not allowed. > > Does the string value of the param not properly get interpreted as a file? > > <macrodef name="auto-deploy-web-app"> > <attribute name="root"/> > <sequential> > <dirname property="auto-deploy-app-name" file="@{root}"/> > <copy todir="${my.dir.auto-deploy}"> > > </copy> > </sequential> > </macrodef> > > > -- > Laran Evans - Cornell University > p: (607) 255-6864 f: (607) 255-0327 > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
