On Oct 27, 2010, at 4:05 PM, Vimil Saju wrote: > You will need to enable nested property expansion.ant-contrib has a Property > Helper class to expand nested properties. You will need to include this > library in your ant class path and also specify something similar to follows > <propertyhelper> <nested/> </propertyhelper>
Are you talking about the props antlib? http://ant.apache.org/antlibs/props/index.html -Matt > --- On Wed, 10/27/10, ritchie <ganesh.devaraj...@baml.com> wrote: > > From: ritchie <ganesh.devaraj...@baml.com> > Subject: Re: echo a property > To: user@ant.apache.org > Date: Wednesday, October 27, 2010, 1:44 PM > > > I am sorry that was a typo when i posted it. That was not the problem. > > My properties file- new.properties contains. > > prod.eg=1 > dev.eg=2 > > I am trying to access these properties in a echo.xml file > > <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> > <project name= "echo" default="echoeg"> > <property name="env" value="${env}"/> > <target name="echoeg" description=""> > <property file="new.properties"/> > <echo message="${${env}.eg}"/> -----> does not work > </target> > </project> > From command line i do this. > ant -f echo.xml -Denv= prod > > I expect the echo to display 1. It does not happen. How else can i access > that value? > -- > View this message in context: > http://ant.1045680.n5.nabble.com/echo-a-property-tp3239198p3239475.html > Sent from the Ant - Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: user-unsubscr...@ant.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: user-h...@ant.apache.org > > > >
