That sounds ideal! Cheers! > -----Original Message----- > From: Scott Hernandez [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: 05 March 2004 18:55 > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [Nant-users] Double expansion of property names? > > > 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 > > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.Net email is sponsored by: IBM Linux Tutorials > Free Linux tutorial presented by Daniel Robbins, President > and CEO of GenToo technologies. Learn everything from > fundamentals to system > administration.http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=1470&alloc_id=3638&op=click > _______________________________________________ > Nant-users mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/n> ant-users >
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