Shaw, Gerry wrote:
>For clarity here it is again.
>
>If you went:
>
><property name="alpha" value="a"/>
><property name="bravo" value="b"/>
><property name="charlie" value="c"/>
><property name="abc" value="123/>
>
><echo message="${alpha}"/>
>
>you would get (as you would expect):
>
>[echo] a
>
>If you went:
>
><echo message="${${alpha}bc}"/>
>
>
>You would get (something you might expect - I hope):
>
>[echo] 123
>
OK I get it now. Reading it before, it looked like ${${alpha}} was
referencing the alpha key in some compound property - maybe I've been
looking at too much perl code :) . So its just doing string substition.
Seems reasonable but not somthing I'd need to use too often.
Ian
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