Pete,
Using the new expression support that is the nightly builds, and will be in
.85, you can do this...
<project>
<property name="var" value="val"/>
<property name="val.var" value="hi"/>
<echo message="${property::get-value(var + '.var')}"/>
</project>
C:\src\sf.net\nant>bin\nant -f:expand.xml
NAnt 0.85 (Build 0.85.1518.0; net-1.0.win32; nightly; 2/27/2004)
Copyright (C) 2001-2004 Gerry Shaw
http://nant.sourceforge.net
Buildfile: file:///expand.xml
[echo] hi
BUILD SUCCEEDED
Total time: 0.1 seconds.
But other than that, I don't believe we decided to allow nested expression
like this. I remember the discussion, and I think the decision was made to
use functions rather than nested expressions. :)
Does this work for you?
----- Original Message -----
From: "Peter McEvoy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: [Nant-users] Double expansion of property names?
> Hi all,
> I am trying to build a library of reusable targets that I can include into
> my build files. In order to do this, I'd really like to be able to be
able
> to evaluate properties like the following:
>
> ${$nant.project.name}.dist.dir}
>
> in my reusable target, which would then expand to the value of (say)
>
> ${myproj.dist.dir}
>
> I get an error if I try this (which I kinda expected). Is there any way I
> could workaround this?
>
> Pete
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