Hello All!!
First time writing to the list. I'm working for a Software Design company that works primarily in JAVA. I work in the Production department, and started using ANT a month or two ago to automate our processes. So - I am stuck on something I would like to create a documentation of my processes thru a CSV file. The way my ANT works, I use a loop to process each file individually, and the various details about the file [name, path, datemodified, action performed with the file, etc] are echoed to a file with comma delimiters to allow for filtering and sorting in Excel. Here's my problem, I currently echo a full string of variables for each file in each area I process files in different ways. The problem with this is that if I want to make a change, I need to change the string of variables in every location I create this log. I'd like to be able to have some form of reference to a string that I can call in various places, but only need to change in one. Making a property with other properties doesn't work because properties sets the value with the ${} and doesn't allow for them to be replaced. I'd appreciate if anyone has any ideas. I hope that my description is clear. If not, please ask away ... TIA, Josh Joshua Wunder Production Engineer Cerylion Israel 39 HaShaked Street Moshav Aminadav Israel Tel: 972-2-643-3399 @ 107 Work Home: 972-2-997-1004 Cell: 972-54-759-8887 Fax: 972-2-643-6066