Your failure was thinking in "variables" not in "Ant properties". Later are immutable - once set they cannot change. (exception: <antcontrib:var unset/>)
Jan >-----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- >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. >>> -- >>> View this message in context: >>> >http://old.nabble.com/Help-needed-for-Appache-ANT-tp26500160p26 500160.html >>> Sent from the Ant - Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. >>> >>> >>> >--------------------------------------------------------------------- >>> To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] >>> For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] >>> >>> >> >> Scot P. Floess >> 27 Lake Royale >> Louisburg, NC 27549 >> >> 252-478-8087 (Home) >> 919-890-8117 (Work) >> >> Chief Architect JPlate http://sourceforge.net/projects/jplate >> Chief Architect JavaPIM http://sourceforge.net/projects/javapim >> >> Architect Keros http://sourceforge.net/projects/keros >> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] >> For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] >> >> > >Scot P. Floess >27 Lake Royale >Louisburg, NC 27549 > >252-478-8087 (Home) >919-890-8117 (Work) > >Chief Architect JPlate http://sourceforge.net/projects/jplate >Chief Architect JavaPIM http://sourceforge.net/projects/javapim > >Architect Keros http://sourceforge.net/projects/keros > >--------------------------------------------------------------------- >To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] >For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
