bodewig 01/10/18 23:26:33
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docs/manual/CoreTasks property.html
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state that properties are case sensitive.
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<h3>Properties</h3>
<p>A project can have a set of properties. These might be set in the
buildfile
by the <a href="CoreTasks/property.html">property task</a>, or might be set
outside Ant. A
-property has a name and a value. Properties may be used in the value of
+property has a name and a value, the name is case sensitive. Properties may
be used in the value of
task attributes. This is done by placing the property name between
"<code>${</code>" and "<code>}</code>" in the
attribute value. For example,
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<h2><a name="property">Property</a></h2>
<h3>Description</h3>
<p>Sets a property (by name and value), or set of properties (from file or
-resource) in the project.</p>
+resource) in the project. Properties are case sensitive.</p>
<p>When a property was set by the user, or was a property in a parent project
(that started this project with the <a href="ant.html">ant task</a>), then
this
property cannot be set, and will be ignored. This means that properties set
@@ -90,7 +90,11 @@
allow access of environment variables through "myenv.PATH"
and
"myenv.TERM". This functionality is currently only
implemented
on select platforms. Feel free to send patches to increase the number of
platforms
- this functionality is supported on ;)</td>
+ this functionality is supported on ;).<br>
+ Note also that properties are case sensitive, even if the
+ environment variables on your operating system are not, e.g. it
+ will be ${env.Path} not ${env.PATH} on Windows 2000.</td>
+
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign="top">classpath</td>
