Your failure was thinking in "variables" not in "Ant properties".
Later are immutable - once set they cannot change. (exception: <antcontrib:var 
unset/>)

Jan

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>Von: Scot P. Floess [mailto:[email protected]] 
>Gesendet: Dienstag, 24. November 2009 22:19
>An: Ant Users List
>Betreff: Re: Help needed for Appache ANT
>
>
>Sorry, you will probably need to use 2 properties for each call to 
>dirname...
>
>On Tue, 24 Nov 2009, Scot P. Floess wrote:
>
>>
>> You can run dirname task twice...  First dirname will cut 
>out four, the 
>> second dirname will cut out three...
>>
>> On Tue, 24 Nov 2009, jhudson wrote:
>>
>>> 
>>> Hi
>>> 
>>> I have below requirement in ANT:-
>>> 
>>> variable1 = ${basedir}
>>> 
>>> now let us say from above statement "variable1" got the value
>>> C:\one\two\three\four
>>> 
>>> now i want to cut two levels from above path (so 
>"C:\one\two" will be the
>>> result after cut) and i want to reassign the value to varibale1.
>>> 
>>> So, if i give echo ${variable1} it should give the path C:\one\two
>>> 
>>> Could someone please help me on how to get it.
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