On Sat, 9 Mar 2002, Darrell DeBoer wrote:
> Hi
>
> On Sat, 9 Mar 2002 16:15, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > If you use $!{name}, ant will certainly not touch it - and your task
> > can do it's own substitution.
>
> This is not *quite* true. If you use "$!{name}", ant will strip the "$", so
> you'll see "!{name}" as the value. (This is because ant strips all single "$"
> characters without warning, unless they are part of a "${...}" construct.)
> You'll need to use "$$!{name}" instead.
That's strange.
Any problem in fixing this ? I checked the manual and it doesn't say you
have to double $$ ( or I couldn't find that ), and $ is a valid character
for an attribute. If this is true, we certainly need to fix it.
Costin
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