You don't not embed expressions. Write your if as follows:
<property name="dir.base" value="this/is/my/working/directory" />
<if test="${string::contains(dir.base,'working')}">
<echo>This is my directory</echo>
</if>
BOb
From: Michael Corr [mailto:mich...@aduratech.com]
Sent: Sunday, August 30, 2009 10:52 PM
To: nant-users@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: [NAnt-users] Expanding Variables in if statements
hi
I'm trying to check if a source string contains a substring, inside an <if>
statement, but it doesn't seem to work when the source string is a variable
I have:
<property name="dir.base" value="this/is/my/working/directory" />
<if test="${string::contains('${dir.base}','working')}">
<echo>This is my directory</echo>
</if>
This never returns true. It doesn't seem to parse the ${dir.base} variable
inside the <if> statement
If I change the test to:
<if test="${string::contains('${dir.base}','base')}">
<echo>This is my directory</echo>
</if>
This does return true. So, it appears to treat the variable as a literal and
not a variable.
Am I missing something? I tried removing the single quotes around ${dir.base}
and got an error about the $ character. I also tried using double quotes, but
got an error as well
Is there a better way to check if a string (or path) contains a specific
directory?
thanks
Michael
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