string — CMake 3.4.3 Documentation (original) (raw)
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String operations.
Search and Replace¶
FIND¶
string(FIND [REVERSE])
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. If the substring is not found, a position of -1 is returned.
REPLACE¶
string(REPLACE [...])
Replace all occurrences of match_string in the input with replace_string and store the result in the output.
Regular Expressions¶
REGEX MATCH¶
string(REGEX MATCH [...])
Match the regular expression once and store the match in the output variable. All <input> arguments are concatenated before matching.
REGEX MATCHALL¶
string(REGEX MATCHALL [...])
Match the regular expression as many times as possible and store the matches in the output variable as a list. All <input> arguments are concatenated before matching.
REGEX REPLACE¶
string(REGEX REPLACE [...])
Match the regular expression as many times as possible and substitute the replacement expression for the match in the output. All <input> arguments are concatenated before matching.
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.
Regex Specification¶
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.
Manipulation¶
APPEND¶
string(APPEND [...])
Append all the input arguments to the string.
CONCAT¶
string(CONCAT [...])
Concatenate all the input arguments together and store the result in the named output variable.
TOLOWER¶
string(TOLOWER )
Convert string to lower characters.
TOUPPER¶
string(TOUPPER )
Convert string to upper characters.
LENGTH¶
string(LENGTH )
Store in an output variable a given string’s length.
SUBSTRING¶
string(SUBSTRING )
Store in an output variable 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¶
string(STRIP )
Store in an output variable a substring of a given string with leading and trailing spaces removed.
GENEX_STRIP¶
string(GENEX_STRIP )
Strip any generator expressionsfrom the input string and store the result in the output variable.
Comparison¶
string(COMPARE EQUAL ) string(COMPARE NOTEQUAL ) string(COMPARE LESS ) string(COMPARE GREATER )
Compare the strings and store true or false in the output variable.
Hashing¶
string(<MD5|SHA1|SHA224|SHA256|SHA384|SHA512> )
Compute a cryptographic hash of the input string.
Generation¶
ASCII¶
string(ASCII [ ...] )
Convert all numbers into corresponding ASCII characters.
CONFIGURE¶
string(CONFIGURE [@ONLY] [ESCAPE_QUOTES])
Transform a string like configure_file() transforms a file.
RANDOM¶
string(RANDOM [LENGTH ] [ALPHABET ] [RANDOM_SEED ] )
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.
TIMESTAMP¶
string(TIMESTAMP [] [UTC])
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:
%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.
string(MAKE_C_IDENTIFIER )
Write a string which can be used as an identifier in C.
UUID¶
string(UUID NAMESPACE NAME TYPE <MD5|SHA1> [UPPER])
Create 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) orSHA1 (Version 5 UUID). A UUID has the format xxxxxxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxxxxxxxxxxwhere each x represents a lower case hexadecimal character. Where required an uppercase representation can be requested with the optional UPPER flag.