[CMake] Reading the content of a file
Filipe Sousa
natros at gmail.com
Sun Feb 25 09:31:25 EST 2007
Timo Rumland wrote:
> Hello,
>
>> Have you tried CONFIGURE_FILE() ? You can use it to replace
>> variables.
>> CONFIGURE_FILE(myfile ${CMAKE_CURRENT_BINARY_DIR}/myfile-copy)
>
> I can use CONFIGURE_FILE to copy the file, but I have to edit the
> content of the file (that goes beyond just replacing VARS in the
> file).
>
> I must use a regex to do a string replace. The STRING function can do
> this, but only on variables, not files. So I have to read a file into
> a variable, change the variable with STRING and finally write it out
> into a new file.
In that case you have to quote the variable. ";" is used as a list
separator.
file( WRITE ${filename2} "${tmp_filecontent}" )
>
> Timo
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