[CMake] File names with unbalanced square brackets

[Allen Barnett]

Hi Petr: You're right! If I rename "c" to "c]", it treats the whole
"/home/allen/test/b[;/home/allen/test/c]" as an element of the list. The
other file names are correctly split apart.
Thanks,
Allen

On Fri, Mar 18, 2016 at 3:17 AM, Petr Kmoch <petr.kmoch at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi Allen.
>
> I'm not sure whether it's documented, but CMake interprets square brackets
> as escaping the semi-colon character (which means a semi-colon in square
> brackets will not work as a list item separator). You will probably have to
> translate the file names for CMake processing by replacing [ and ] with a
> different string, and replacing it back just before use outside of CMake.
>
> Petr
>
> On Thu, Mar 17, 2016 at 5:38 PM, Allen Barnett <allenbarnett5 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> I inherited a set of files with somewhat unusual file names. In
>> particular, there were a couple of files whose names included a single
>> square bracket character. I processed these files with the file( GLOB ...)
>> command and then iterated over the resulting list with foreach. However,
>> the foreach command does not seem to break the resulting list apart
>> correctly. To make this concrete, I have a directory with files named "a",
>> "b[", and "c". file( GLOB FILES "*" ) returns the list:
>>
>> /home/allen/test/b[;/home/allen/test/c;/home/allen/test/a
>>
>> However,
>>
>> foreach( FILE ${FILES} )
>>   message( ${FILE} )
>> endforeach()
>>
>> just prints the same thing. That is, foreach does not split FILES into
>> separate pieces. If I rename "b[" to "b]" I see the same behavior. If I
>> rename "b[" to "b[]" (or even "b]["), then foreach successfully splits
>> FILES into the individual file names.
>>
>> I'm using CMake 3.3.2. I see the same thing on linux and windows.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Allen
>>
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