[CMake] CMake: Problem with reading files with semicolons

[William A. Hoffman]

At 01:21 PM 1/25/2006, wedekind wrote:
>Hi all,
>
>a quick question for CMake-gurus: Why do all semicolons disappear after
>reading a file using
>
>FILE(READ c:/some/file.txt TheFile)
>
>???
>
>If I print the output variable TheFile like this:
>
>MESSAGE(${TheFile})

Try:
MESSAGE("${TheFile}")

; is a variable separator in CMake, so the message command will
not print them unless the variable is quoted.

-Bill