How can I compare two properties with numeric values?

Question

How can I find out which of two numeric properties is the greatest?

Here\'s how to check wheather two are equal:

Answer 1

If you don't want to (or cannot) use the Ant-Contrib libraries, you can define a compare task using javascript:

    
    
    
     val2 ? 1 : (val1 < val2 ? -1 : 0));
    project.setProperty(attributes.get("result"), result);
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You can use it like this:

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