Thanks Don
just a question.
When you put the sample of the counter the "."
after the counter means that the value will increment
in one??
<property name="${counter}." value="whatever" />
or how do I increment in one the variable value of
my counter?
Thanks again
VES
--- Don Taylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> --- Edgar S�nchez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Hi everyone is Vincent again...
> >
> > now I've 2 questions, well those are for the
> same
> > reason..
> > I was wondering if here in Ant could I make some
> > jumps in order to repeat the same procedure with
> other
> > caracteristics,
>
> Yes, check out the antcall task. This allows you to
> execute the
> same target multiple times with different sets of
> "inputs".
>
>
> or if I can use loops like For or
> > While to do the same, keeping a counter in order
> to
> > make conditions to execute the same procedure or
> same
> > target with diferent actions.
> >
> > Is it possible?
>
> When looping, you have to create a "kick-out"
> condition. I used the
> target's unless attribute. The idea is to loop until
> the property is
> set. However, because a target can't antcall itself,
> you have to
> replicate the target and have them cross-call each
> other:
>
>
> <target name="worker">
> <!-- This does the actual work. May depend on
> other workers. -->
> </target>
>
> <target name="looper_1" depends="worker"
> unless="some.condition">
> <antcall target="looper_2"/>
> </target>
>
> <target name="looper_2" depends="worker"
> unless="some.condition">
> <antcall target="looper_1"/>
> </target>
>
>
> This takes care of while loops. I've never tried
> implementing a for
> loop in Ant. I suppose you could do something like
> the following
> in the worker target:
>
> <property name="counter" value="counter" />
>
> <target name="worker">
> <property name="${counter}." value="whatever" />
> </target>
>
> Then if you wanted to loop 3 times:
>
> <target name="looper_1" depends="worker"
> unless="counter...">
> <antcall target="looper_2"/>
> </target>
>
> <target name="looper_2" depends="worker"
> unless="counter...">
> <antcall target="looper_1"/>
> </target>
>
> -- Don
>
>
> >
> > thank you
> > VES
> >
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