Success. This example worked. The problem was related to the encoding of the properties files themselves. They were encoded as unicode rather than ASCII. When i ran this example i created the files quickly with notepad so they both were created as ascii. Since this example worked I knew the problem had to be with the property files themselves. I recreated my local properties file using notepad and copied my values inside. This time everything worked. The model I copied to create my properties file had been encoded as a unicode file. I could see this once I looked for it inside my normal editor. Strange that the property reader in our codebase did not have a problem reading the files as unicode. Thank you to everyone esp. Diane and Conor. -----Original Message----- From: Diane Holt [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, May 02, 2001 12:54 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: v1.3 -- problems retrieving properties from <property file="S OMEF ILE"> --- "Webb, James" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > In my testing I have tried to use multiple properties from the file > in these tasks to rule out the possibility of a parsing error > or something like that in one of the name/value pairs. > Anyway, none of the properties from the file are set > when I try to use them within a task. Can you try this simple test: File test.properties: weblogic.webapp.name=myapp File test.xml: <?xml version="1.0"?> <project name="test" default="showprop" basedir="."> <target name="showprop"> <property file="test.properties"/> <echo message="weblogic.webapp.name = ${weblogic.webapp.name}"/> </target> </project> [BINKY:dianeh]: ant -f test.xml Buildfile: test.xml showprop: [echo] weblogic.webapp.name = myapp BUILD SUCCESSFUL Total time: 0 seconds Diane ===== ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Auctions - buy the things you want at great prices http://auctions.yahoo.com/
