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Posted to dev@velocity.apache.org by "Geir Magnusson Jr." <ge...@optonline.net> on 2001/03/01 01:05:42 UTC

Re: concatenation eccentricity

John McNally wrote:
> 
> I had something similar to:
> 
> #set ( $a = "$b${c}foo.java" )
> #set ( $d = "$b${c}.java" )
> 
> if $b=boy and $c=cat
> this gives $a=boycatfoo.java and $d=boy${c}.java
> 
>  changing to
> 
> #set ( $d = "${b}${c}.java" )
> it works => $d = boycat.java
> 
> I have no problem with requiring the braces but not sure why it works
> for $a but not $d.
> 
> John McNally


That's wierd, and appears to be a bug. :)  Thanks.

geir

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