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From: "J. Michael Caine" <jmcaine@alum.rpi.edu>
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Subject: RE: property setting
Date: Mon, 25 Jun 2001 19:58:32 -0700
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thank you.
i realize this ought to be an ant-user post.  my mistake.  sorry for
littering this group.

-----Original Message-----
From: Diane Holt [mailto:holtdl@yahoo.com]
Sent: Monday, June 25, 2001 3:50 PM
To: ant-dev@jakarta.apache.org; mcaine@artlogic.com
Subject: Re: property setting


--- "J. Michael Caine" <jmcaine@alum.rpi.edu> wrote:
> why does "message = red" always get printed here?  shouldn't "message =
> green" be printed?
>
> <project name="test">
> 	<property name="color" value="red"/>
> 	<target name="bogus">
> 		<property name="color" value="green"/>
> 		<echo message="message = ${color}"/>
> 	</target>
> </project>

Nope -- once a property is set, it can't be reset, except when using the
<antcall>/<ant> tasks. See the doc for info on those tasks.

P.S. This type of question should really go to ant-user.

Diane

=====
(holtdl@yahoo.com)



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