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From: "Anthony Rodriguez" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Tuesday, March 19, 2002 4:56 PM
Subject: matching a string in a property
> Hi, I have a question regarding finding a string in a property. Say I
have
> a property like this:
>
> <property name="foo" value="a_very_short_string">
>
> Now I want to search that property for a string, let's say "short". If
the
> property has "short" in it then I want to do task A. If not, then do not
do
> task A. Something like this:
>
> <condition property="doTaskA" value="true">
> <exists key="short" inproperty="foo"/> #made this up for
illustration
> purposes
> </condition>
>
that'll be the
<condition ...>
<contains string="${foo}" substring="short"/>
</condition>
in the CVS tree only, not ant 1.4.1
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