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Posted to dev@ant.apache.org by Stefan Bodewig <bo...@apache.org> on 2001/06/01 08:24:24 UTC

Re: [DISC] ${} expansion for data types

Peter Donald <do...@apache.org> wrote:

> At 02:06 PM 5/31/01 +0200, Stefan Bodewig wrote:

>>The most common use I see for a FileSet to String conversion is in
>>the context of <exec> and <java> like tasks. There is no hard rule
>>to apply which format is best as different tools will need different
>>delimter
> 
> Then we have a task to convert between path
> representations/serializations.

A task that sets a property (a String datatype) from another datatype
for special cases? I could live with that.

Stefan