Thanks Peter, I used your approach and it works great!

On 12/15/06, Peter Reilly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

On 12/15/06, Anderson, Rob (Global Trade) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> A simpler approach is to check the existence of a variable, and ignore
> the value. This may or may not work for your situation, but consider it.
>
> <property environment="env"/>
>
> <target name="do.stuff" if="${env.SOMEVARIABLE}">
Should be if="env.SOMEVARIABLE"
I.e the name of the property and not its value.
Peter
> ...
>
> Perhaps the non-existence of the variable would provide the "false"
> condition...
>
> <target name="do.otherstuff" unless="${env.SOMEVARIABLE}">
> ...
>
> -Rob Anderson
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Chun Tat David Chu [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Sent: Friday, December 15, 2006 7:56 AM
> > To: [email protected]
> > Subject: How to construct condition statement?
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > I'm trying to construct a condition statement in ANT, and I'm
> > stuck.  Any help or suggestion would be great!
> >
> > What I am trying to do is to check an environmental variable,
> > and if it is set to "TRUE", then I want to set a field to
> > another text.
> >
> > ex. (sorry, I'm new at ANT, I'll use pseudo code to demonstrate)
> >
> > STRING location = "xxx";
> >
> > IF (CONDITION == TRUE)
> >    location = "yyy";
> >
> > I really hope to achieve this using ANT straight from the box
> > without downloading additional libraries/plug-in
> >
> > Thanks!
> >
> > - dc
> >
>
>
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