[cmake-developers] [CMake 0015742]: string(REGEX MATCH) and string(REGEX MATCHALL) concatenate arguments

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The following issue has been SUBMITTED. 
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http://public.kitware.com/Bug/view.php?id=15742 
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Reported By:                Fujii Hironori
Assigned To:                
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Project:                    CMake
Issue ID:                   15742
Category:                   Documentation
Reproducibility:            N/A
Severity:                   minor
Priority:                   normal
Status:                     new
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Date Submitted:             2015-09-14 09:43 EDT
Last Modified:              2015-09-14 09:43 EDT
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Summary:                    string(REGEX MATCH) and string(REGEX MATCHALL)
concatenate arguments
Description: 
> string(REGEX MATCH "a." out a b c)

'out' becomes "ab".

This is a intended behavior.

 [Cmake] regex error ? in 2.1
 http://www.cmake.org/pipermail/cmake/2004-June/005173.html

This should be documented.

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Issue History 
Date Modified    Username       Field                    Change               
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2015-09-14 09:43 Fujii Hironori New Issue                                    
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