[CMake] find_file with wildcards

Michael Wild themiwi at gmail.com
Tue Mar 30 10:06:53 EDT 2010


On 30. Mar, 2010, at 15:45 , David Cole wrote:

> Not yet. Good feature request, though.
> 
> 
> On Mon, Mar 29, 2010 at 2:59 PM, James Bigler <jamesbigler at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> I've looked at the documentation for find_file, and it seems like I have to
>> specify all possible permutations of the name explicitly.  Is there a way to
>> do so with a wild card?
>> 
>> find_file(... NAMES somefile_1.*.txt ...)
>> 
>> James

I agree, that would be useful. However, I think simple globbing is not very safe, specifying a regular expression should at least be possible.


Michael


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