I'm trying to use the foreach loop in an Ant script but I get the message: Problem: failed to create task or type foreach Cause: The name is undefined.
I don't understand why this doesn't work. It is not a 3rd party library. It is a standard task that would be part of the latest version of Ant (1.8).
<target name="parse">
<echo message="The first five letters of the alphabet are:"/>
<foreach param="instance" list="a,b,c,d,e">
</foreach>
</target>
It is a standard task that would be part of the latest version of Ant (1.8).
No, it's not. At least I can't find it in the list of core and optional tasks in the ant manual. It seems to be part of the ant-contrib project and thus needs to be installed separately.
I can't find the foreach task in the Ant 1.8 manual - where is it? I only know the task from ant-contrib, and it requires to specify the 'target' attribute: http://ant-contrib.sourceforge.net/tasks/tasks/foreach.html
I had the same issue under eclipse with various versions of ant.
Add this into your code WITHOUT adding parameters under eclipse (do not specify any classpath) :
<taskdef resource="net/sf/antcontrib/antcontrib.properties" classpath="/path/to/ant-contrib/ant-contrib-1.0b3.jar"/>