On Thu, Sep 4, 2014 at 1:44 PM, Clark Wang <dearv...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 4, 2014 at 1:36 PM, Chuck Atkins <chuck.atk...@kitware.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Hi Clark
>>
>> The expression inside the if statement has it's variables dereferenced
>> before evaluating and the non-variables are treated as constant
>> expressions. In this case, a resolves to "b", b resolves to "c", and c is
>> not a variable so it's treated as the constant expression "c". Thus
>>
>>
>> if(a STREQUAL b OR a STREQUAL c)
>>
>> gets evaluated as
>>
>> if( ("b" STREQUAL "c") OR ("b" STREQUAL "c") )
>>
>
> Thanks a lot. It's clear now. But is there a way to check if the value of
> the variable a equals to "b" or "c"?
>
Found
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/19982340/cmake-compare-to-empty-string-with-strequal-failed
which suggests to use if(a MATCHES "^b$").
-clark
>
> -clark
>
>>
>> which is clearly false. Hope that helps.
>>
>> - Chuck
>>
>>
>
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