| string |
| ------ |
| |
| String operations. |
| |
| :: |
| |
| string(REGEX MATCH <regular_expression> |
| <output variable> <input> [<input>...]) |
| string(REGEX MATCHALL <regular_expression> |
| <output variable> <input> [<input>...]) |
| string(REGEX REPLACE <regular_expression> |
| <replace_expression> <output variable> |
| <input> [<input>...]) |
| string(REPLACE <match_string> |
| <replace_string> <output variable> |
| <input> [<input>...]) |
| string(CONCAT <output variable> [<input>...]) |
| string(<MD5|SHA1|SHA224|SHA256|SHA384|SHA512> |
| <output variable> <input>) |
| string(COMPARE EQUAL <string1> <string2> <output variable>) |
| string(COMPARE NOTEQUAL <string1> <string2> <output variable>) |
| string(COMPARE LESS <string1> <string2> <output variable>) |
| string(COMPARE GREATER <string1> <string2> <output variable>) |
| string(ASCII <number> [<number> ...] <output variable>) |
| string(CONFIGURE <string1> <output variable> |
| [@ONLY] [ESCAPE_QUOTES]) |
| string(TOUPPER <string1> <output variable>) |
| string(TOLOWER <string1> <output variable>) |
| string(LENGTH <string> <output variable>) |
| string(SUBSTRING <string> <begin> <length> <output variable>) |
| string(STRIP <string> <output variable>) |
| string(RANDOM [LENGTH <length>] [ALPHABET <alphabet>] |
| [RANDOM_SEED <seed>] <output variable>) |
| string(FIND <string> <substring> <output variable> [REVERSE]) |
| string(TIMESTAMP <output variable> [<format string>] [UTC]) |
| string(MAKE_C_IDENTIFIER <input string> <output variable>) |
| string(GENEX_STRIP <input string> <output variable>) |
| string(UUID <output variable> NAMESPACE <namespace> NAME <name> |
| TYPE <MD5|SHA1> [UPPER]) |
| |
| REGEX MATCH will match the regular expression once and store the match |
| in the output variable. |
| |
| REGEX MATCHALL will match the regular expression as many times as |
| possible and store the matches in the output variable as a list. |
| |
| REGEX REPLACE will match the regular expression as many times as |
| possible and substitute the replacement expression for the match in |
| the output. The replace expression may refer to paren-delimited |
| subexpressions of the match using \1, \2, ..., \9. Note that two |
| backslashes (\\1) are required in CMake code to get a backslash |
| through argument parsing. |
| |
| REPLACE will replace all occurrences of match_string in the input with |
| replace_string and store the result in the output. |
| |
| CONCAT will concatenate all the input arguments together and store |
| the result in the named output variable. |
| |
| MD5, SHA1, SHA224, SHA256, SHA384, and SHA512 will compute a |
| cryptographic hash of the input string. |
| |
| COMPARE EQUAL/NOTEQUAL/LESS/GREATER will compare the strings and store |
| true or false in the output variable. |
| |
| ASCII will convert all numbers into corresponding ASCII characters. |
| |
| CONFIGURE will transform a string like CONFIGURE_FILE transforms a |
| file. |
| |
| TOUPPER/TOLOWER will convert string to upper/lower characters. |
| |
| LENGTH will return a given string's length. |
| |
| SUBSTRING will return a substring of a given string. If length is -1 |
| the remainder of the string starting at begin will be returned. |
| If string is shorter than length then end of string is used instead. |
| |
| .. note:: |
| CMake 3.1 and below reported an error if length pointed past |
| the end of string. |
| |
| STRIP will return a substring of a given string with leading and |
| trailing spaces removed. |
| |
| RANDOM will return a random string of given length consisting of |
| characters from the given alphabet. Default length is 5 characters |
| and default alphabet is all numbers and upper and lower case letters. |
| If an integer RANDOM_SEED is given, its value will be used to seed the |
| random number generator. |
| |
| FIND will return the position where the given substring was found in |
| the supplied string. If the REVERSE flag was used, the command will |
| search for the position of the last occurrence of the specified |
| substring. |
| |
| The following characters have special meaning in regular expressions: |
| |
| :: |
| |
| ^ Matches at beginning of input |
| $ Matches at end of input |
| . Matches any single character |
| [ ] Matches any character(s) inside the brackets |
| [^ ] Matches any character(s) not inside the brackets |
| - Inside brackets, specifies an inclusive range between |
| characters on either side e.g. [a-f] is [abcdef] |
| To match a literal - using brackets, make it the first |
| or the last character e.g. [+*/-] matches basic |
| mathematical operators. |
| * Matches preceding pattern zero or more times |
| + Matches preceding pattern one or more times |
| ? Matches preceding pattern zero or once only |
| | Matches a pattern on either side of the | |
| () Saves a matched subexpression, which can be referenced |
| in the REGEX REPLACE operation. Additionally it is saved |
| by all regular expression-related commands, including |
| e.g. if( MATCHES ), in the variables CMAKE_MATCH_(0..9). |
| |
| ``*``, ``+`` and ``?`` have higher precedence than concatenation. | has lower |
| precedence than concatenation. This means that the regular expression |
| "^ab+d$" matches "abbd" but not "ababd", and the regular expression |
| "^(ab|cd)$" matches "ab" but not "abd". |
| |
| TIMESTAMP will write a string representation of the current date |
| and/or time to the output variable. |
| |
| Should the command be unable to obtain a timestamp the output variable |
| will be set to the empty string "". |
| |
| The optional UTC flag requests the current date/time representation to |
| be in Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) rather than local time. |
| |
| The optional <format string> may contain the following format |
| specifiers: |
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| :: |
| |
| %d The day of the current month (01-31). |
| %H The hour on a 24-hour clock (00-23). |
| %I The hour on a 12-hour clock (01-12). |
| %j The day of the current year (001-366). |
| %m The month of the current year (01-12). |
| %M The minute of the current hour (00-59). |
| %S The second of the current minute. |
| 60 represents a leap second. (00-60) |
| %U The week number of the current year (00-53). |
| %w The day of the current week. 0 is Sunday. (0-6) |
| %y The last two digits of the current year (00-99) |
| %Y The current year. |
| |
| Unknown format specifiers will be ignored and copied to the output |
| as-is. |
| |
| If no explicit <format string> is given it will default to: |
| |
| :: |
| |
| %Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%S for local time. |
| %Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%SZ for UTC. |
| |
| MAKE_C_IDENTIFIER will write a string which can be used as an |
| identifier in C. |
| |
| ``GENEX_STRIP`` will strip any |
| :manual:`generator expressions <cmake-generator-expressions(7)>` from the |
| ``input string`` and store the result in the ``output variable``. |
| |
| UUID creates a univerally unique identifier (aka GUID) as per RFC4122 |
| based on the hash of the combined values of <namespace> |
| (which itself has to be a valid UUID) and <name>. |
| The hash algorithm can be either ``MD5`` (Version 3 UUID) or |
| ``SHA1`` (Version 5 UUID). |
| A UUID has the format ``xxxxxxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxxxxxxxxxx`` |
| where each `x` represents a lower case hexadecimal character. |
| Where required an uppercase representation can be requested |
| with the optional ``UPPER`` flag. |