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From: "Chris Greenlee" <CGreenlee@demandsolutions.com>
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The <foreach> task also allows <item> elements (in addition to
<fileset>s), which don't have to be the names of files or directories. =20

Cheers,

Chris Greenlee

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Diane Holt [mailto:holtdl@yahoo.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, May 01, 2001 3:12 PM
> To: ant-dev@jakarta.apache.org
> Subject: Re: Parameters and Ant
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> --- Jean Bresse <jeanb@classwave.com> wrote:
> > 1) Can Ant receive parameters from its caller?
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> Yes. The <antcall> task allows for nested <param> tags (see the user
> manual for details).=20
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> > For example, suppose I have a list of names and I want to invoke the
> > same set of tasks for each name. I would want to ave one Ant process
> call
> > another one, I would want to call it n times (where n is=20
> the number of
> > names) and pass in as a parameter the name in question.
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> A <foreach> task was recently submitted to the list (search=20
> the ant-dev
> archive for "foreach"), but it works with filesets -- so if=20
> your "names"
> aren't files (or directories), you'll probably need to use=20
> the <script>
> task.
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> Diane
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> =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D
> (holtdl@yahoo.com)
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