Ant string functions?

Question

Does Ant have any way of doing string uppercase/lowercase/captialize/uncaptialize string manipulations? I looked at PropertyRegex but I don\'t believe the last two are poss

Answer 1

From this thread, use an Ant allLowerCase=${allLowerCase} allUpperCase=${allUpperCase}

Output

D:\ant-1.8.0RC1\bin>ant capitalize
Buildfile: D:\ant-1.8.0RC1\bin\build.xml

capitalize:
     [echo] allLowerCase=this is a normal line that doesn't say much
     [echo] allUpperCase=THIS IS A NORMAL LINE THAT DOESN'T SAY MUCH

BUILD SUCCESSFUL

Update for WarrenFaith's comment to separate the script into another target and pass a property from the called target back to the calling target

Use antcallback from the ant-contrib jar

    
        
    
    a = ${allUpperCase}

and capitalise task uses the passed in param1 thus

Final output

   [echo] a = THIS IS A NORMAL LINE THAT DOESN'T SAY MUCH