[cmake-developers] [CMake 0012350]: add STRING(ESCAPE) to produce the original string in a CONFIGURE_FILE substitution
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Tue Jul 19 06:47:58 EDT 2011
The following issue has been SUBMITTED.
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http://public.kitware.com/Bug/view.php?id=12350
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Reported By: Flávio J. Saraiva
Assigned To:
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Project: CMake
Issue ID: 12350
Category: CMake
Reproducibility: N/A
Severity: feature
Priority: normal
Status: new
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Date Submitted: 2011-07-19 11:47 WEST
Last Modified: 2011-07-19 11:47 WEST
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Summary: add STRING(ESCAPE) to produce the original string in
a CONFIGURE_FILE substitution
Description:
string(ESCAPE <string to escape> <output variable>)
It would escape the string, adding surrounding quotes if necessary so that using
the escaped string in a CONFIGURE_FILE substitution would produce the original
string.
Steps to Reproduce:
see attached file TestEscapeHell.cmake for a test showcasing the problem and a
test with the proposed solution
Additional Information:
I'm doing CONFIGURE_FILE on the script file CopyIfNotExists.cmake.in to run at
install time.
I have a regex SVN_FOLDER_PATTERN=[\\.]svn that contains a backslash and is
passed on to a variable in the file.
Configuring the file turns: set( SVN_FOLDER_PATTERN @SVN_FOLDER_PATTERN@ )
into: set( SVN_FOLDER_PATTERN [\.]svn )
This obviously generates a parse error: Invalid escape sequence \.
I'm forced to use string(REPLACE) to add escapes and avoid the issue.
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Issue History
Date Modified Username Field Change
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2011-07-19 11:47 Flávio J. SaraivaNew Issue
2011-07-19 11:47 Flávio J. SaraivaFile Added: TestEscapeHell.cmake
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