If you really need to use the property reference to property then I think there is another ant task for that. The task allows you to build property names from properties. Have you tried PopertyCopy ?
Hope this helps -----Original Message----- From: Ray Madigan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, September 10, 2006 12:41 PM To: Ant Users List Subject: RE: antcontrib:for if I echo the @bar property like this <target name='foo'> <for param='bar' list='${${proj}}'> <sequential> <echo message='@{bar}'> </sequential> </for> </target> the result is: ${${proj}} It doesn't look up the value of the inner ${proj} and the ${} can't find a property for '${proj}' -----Original Message----- From: Rick Genter [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, September 10, 2006 8:46 AM To: Ant Users List; Ant Users List Subject: RE: antcontrib:for Try ${${proj}}. -----Original Message----- From: Ray Madigan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sun 9/10/2006 11:52 AM To: Ant Users List Subject: antcontrib:for I have a target that I pass in a variable that I would like to fetch the value of the property to us as the list parameter in a for tag. <antcall target='foo'> <param name='proj' value='foobar'> </antcall> <target name='foo'> <!-- this gives me the name 'foobar' when I want the value of the property 'foobar' --> <for param='bar' list='${proj}'> <sequential> ... </sequential> </for> </target> Is this possible? any suggestions would be appreciated. Thanks --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
