[CMake] How to use file(WRITE... to write the literal string $'\r' to a file

Alan W. Irwin irwin at beluga.phys.uvic.ca
Thu Nov 1 05:52:10 EDT 2012


On 2012-10-31 20:24-0400 David Cole wrote:

> This works for me:
>
> file(WRITE "w.txt" "$'\\r'")

and Matthew came to a similar conclusion.

Thanks to both of you for this suggested simplification
which also works here for me.

Alan
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