That was a clear reply stefan, thanks.
I would like to sincerely thank Diane Holt,Don Taylor
and ofcourse Stefan for spending your valuable time in
solving my doubt.
Thanks and Regards,
Praveen.C
----- Original Message -----
From: "Stefan Bodewig" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wednesday, June 27, 2001 2:46 PM
Subject: Re: Passing arguments.
> Praveen C. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > Can ant recognize and capture arguments
> > in the command line.
>
> Everything that doesn't start with a "-" will be interpreted as a
> target name by Ant. You want to pass in a property.
>
> > For example:
> >
> > # ant -buildfile build.xml execute a.java
>
> ant -buildfile build.xml execute -Dfilename=a.java
>
> and in your buildfile, wherever you wanted to say a.java or $1 or %1
> or whatever, say ${filename}. Use
>
> <project name="dummy" default="echoparameter" basedir=".">
> <target name="echoparameter">
> <echo message="Parameter is ${filename}" />
> </target>
> </project>
>
> as a starting point.
>
> Stefan
>
